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).
Hermann Tertsch | |
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 Tertsch in 2022 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Constituency | Spain |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hermann Leopoldo Tertsch y del Valle de Lersundi 9 April 1958 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Vox (2019–present) |
| Other political affiliations | PCE-EPK (1977) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Ekkehard Tertsch Felisa Maria de Iciar del Valle Lersundi y del Valle |
| Relatives | Ana Palacio (cousin) Loyola de Palacio (cousin) |
| Occupation | Journalist - Politician |
Biography edit
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, 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 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 edit
References edit
- Informational notes
- 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.