Johannes Kaiser (Chilean politician)

Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-von Hohenhagen (born 5 January 1976) is a German-Chilean YouTuber and politician, founder of the National Libertarian Party in 2024. He was a member of José Antonio Kast's Republican Party, from which he resigned in 2021 after several of his controversial comments went viral. In 2022 he was reintegrated to the party to later leave it again in 2024.

Since 2017, he began to be known for his YouTube channel El Nacional-Libertario, a conservative-libertarian space where he openly supported Kast for his 2017 and 2021 presidential campaigns.

He defines himself as paleolibertarian, socially conservative, being against abortion; In addition, he claims to be a minarchist regarding the role of the State and a liberal in economic matters. He is in favor of the free carrying of weapons in Chile.

He intends to participate in the 2025 presidential opposition primaries.

Early life and family
He was born in Santiago to Hans Kaiser and Rosmarie Barents-von Hohenhagen, third-generation German immigrants. He is the brother of Axel Kaiser, a Chilean libertarian ideologue, Vanessa Kaiser, a Chilean scholar and activist, and Leif Kaiser, leader of the Chilean rifle association.

He studied his early years at the German School in Santiago, Villarrica, and Temuco as he moved between those cities. He finished his last two years of high school at the Escuela Militar del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins. In 1995 he enrolled in a law degree at the Finis Terrae University in Santiago, and then traveled to Germany to study at the University of Heidelberg.

In 2022 he married Ivette Avaria Vera and has a daughter (Helena Josefina) with her. They are Orthodox Christians. He has other two children as well.