Diskusija:Joachim Siegerist
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Werner Joachim Siegerist (born January 29, 1947 in Neukirchen (Nordfriesland)) is a prominent German-Latvian journalist, author and conservative politician. He is chairman of the anti-communist German Conservatives and co-publisher of the Konservative Deutsche Zeitung. He played a role in the early days of Latvian independence.
His father was Latvian, and his mother was from Schleswig-Holstein, where he grew up. He was active in the Junge Union and the Christlicher Gewerkschaftsbund. He was in many years a prominent journalist of the Bild-Zeitung, the biggest newspaper of Europe. In 1980 he founded the Bürgeraktion Demokraten für Strauß and campaigned for the candidacy of Franz-Joseph Strauß for Chancellor. Following Strauß' defeat he became the leading reporter of the HÖRZU, a magazine also published by the Axel Springer Verlag. In 1985 he left Springer over political differences, and wrote his first book, Willy Brandt - Das Ende einer Legende.
Following the liberation of the Baltic countries from Soviet occupation, be became a Latvian citizen in 1992 and was elected to Parliament in 1993 for the Latvijas Nacionālās Neatkarības Kustība, which became an influtential party. The same year he was the candidate of his party to become Latvian Prime Minister, but lost the vote in parliament by only one vote and ended up second. He later claimed that some MPs had been paid off by his adversaries. The leader of the popular election, who was a friend of Siegerist, also allegedly committed suicide, but Siegerist suspect he was murdered.
He has written several books, that have sold several million copies.