Spanish politician
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
Tertsch and the second or maternal family name is
del Valle-Lersundi .
Hermann Leopold Tertsch del Valle-Lersundi (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxeɾman ˈteɾtʃ] ; born 9 April 1958) is a Spanish journalist, lawyer and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament for the Vox party since 2019, integrated within the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).
Biography
Tertsch was born in Madrid on 9 April 1958,[1] the son of Ekkehard Tertsch (1906–1989), an Austrian-German diplomat and journalist who was a close collaborator of Josef Hans Lazar [es ] , also an Austrian diplomat and journalist and the chief Nazi propagandist in Spain during World War II.[2] Through his mother Felisa del Valle-Lersundi he is a cousin of Loyola de Palacio and Ana de Palacio .[3] He was a member of the Communist Party of the Basque Country in his youth.[4]
Based in Vienna , Tertsch became a correspondent for the Agencia EFE in 1982, covering Central and Eastern Europe.[5] Soon after, in 1983, he began to work for the newspaper El País as correspondent to Bonn .[5] He chronicled the Yugoslav Wars , featuring a marked anti-Serbian point of view .[6] He became a regular columnist and served for a time as the newspaper's op-ed editor.[5] During the years he became a regular radio guest for the Cadena SER , Radio Nacional de España and Onda Cero .[7]
He left El País in 2007, becoming a political opinion writer for the conservative newspaper ABC soon after.[7] He was also hired by Telemadrid , and became the host of the early-morning Diario de la noche [es ] in 2008, replacing Fernando Sánchez Dragó .[8] [9] After some weeks of convalescence, as he suffered wounds in what the policial investigation termed as a "bar fight" in a piano-bar in Madrid (the Toni 2) in December 2009,[n. 1] he left the role of host.[9] [10]
In April 2019, Tertsch announced his intention to run for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain with the Vox party. As the party won 3 seats in the election, he was elected MEP.[11] He joined the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-MX) and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT), serving as vice-chair in the later body.[1]
After the announcement of the prospective government formation in Spain under Pedro Sánchez in January 2020 after the November 2019 general election , Terstch, just returned from Bolivia, asked for a military coup in the country to abort what he framed as an "obvious putschist process seeking the demolition of Spain as a nation".[12] [13]
He is a signer of the Madrid Charter , joining an alliance of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Vox.[14]
Decorations
References
Informational notes
^ He argued he had been the victim of a premeditated beating committed by "professionals".[10]
Citations
^ a b "Hermann Tertsch" . European Parliament.
^ Pons, Marc (19 April 2019). "El régimen franquista pasea al dirigente nazi Thomsen por Barcelona" . Elnacional.cat .
^ Terstch, Hermann (2007). "Loyola, la valiente" (PDF) . Memoria de Actividades . Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales . p. 86. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^ "Vox ficha al periodista Hermann Tertsch para las elecciones europeas" . La Vanguardia . 21 April 2019.
^ a b c "El periodista y escritor Hermann Tertsch presentará desde hoy 'Diario de la noche' de Telemadrid" . europapress.es . Europa Press . 18 June 2008.
^ Quintero Pizarroso, Alejandro (2005). Nuevas guerras, vieja propaganda: de Vietnam a Irak (in Spanish). Universitat de València . ISBN 9788437622705 .
^ a b "El periodista y escritor Hermann Tertsch presentará desde hoy 'Diario de la noche' de Telemadrid" . El Economista . 18 June 2008.
^ Forcada, D. (28 March 2016). "Telemadrid despolitiza su informativo de autor 'Diario de la noche' " . elconfidencial.com . El Confidencial .
^ a b "Hermann Tertsch se queda sin la dirección de 'Diario de la Noche' " . 20minutos.es . 15 March 2010.
^ a b "Tertsch asegura que fue una paliza; la investigación, que fue una "pelea de bar" " . 20minutos.es . 14 December 2009.
^ "Lista de los 54 eurodiputados elegidos este domingo en España" . La Vanguardia . 27 May 2019.
^ "Hermann Tertsch pide la intervención del Ejército y Espinosa no lo desautoriza" . El Plural . 5 January 2019.
^ Faber, Sebastiaan; Seguín, Bécquer (7 January 2020). "Spain Just Formed Its First Left Coalition Government in More Than 80 Years" . The Nation . ISSN 0027-8378 . Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020 .
^ "Carta de Madrid" . Fundación Disenso (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2021 .
^ Martín, Aurelio (13 May 1990). "Hermann Tertsch, de El País, premio Cirilo Rodríguez" [Hermann Tertsch, of El País, Cirilo Rodríguez Award]. El País (in Spanish). Segovia. Retrieved 6 February 2020 .
^ "Hermann Tertsch, condecorado con la Cruz de Oro al Mérito de Hungría" . ABC . 12 June 2019.
^ "PLenEspana" . Twitter . Retrieved 13 January 2022 .
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