Ena von Baer (politician)

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Ena from Baer

Ena Anglein von Baer Jahn (born November 28, 1974 in Temuco ) is a Chilean politician of German descent ( UDI ). She was government spokeswoman in the government of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera until 2011, and has been a senator since then.

Life

Origin and family

Ena von Baer is a daughter of the German-Chilean biologist and seed entrepreneur Erik von Baer and his wife Helga geb. Jahn. She has three sisters, including Karina von Baer (* 1972), who is president of the Chilean farmers' association ( Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura ). Her mother Helga, who is involved in the Lutheran Church in Chile (ILCH), was born in Valparaíso as the daughter of a farmer from Pomerania who immigrated to Chile in 1939 via Hamburg , where his wife's relatives were already living. Her father Erik (* 1941) left Germany as a child with his parents, who traveled to Chile via Belgium in 1948/49 in order to start a new life and to avoid prosecution as a Nazi victim by the American and British occupation justice. Ena's uncle Heinrich von Baer, ​​a younger brother of her father, was rector of the Universidad de La Frontera in Temuco from 1987 to 2002 .

Ena von Baer is married to the engineer Edward Fröhlich and has two children. She is a Lutheran and, like her mother, belongs to the Lutheran Church in Chile (ILCH), which split off from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (IELCH) in 1975 and is dominated by people of German origin who, during the military dictatorship after the coup in Chile 1973 did not agree with the attitude of the IELCH, supported by the German EKD , that was critical of the government .

Career

Ena von Baer graduated from the German School Temuco. In 1994 she began studying journalism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and became a member of the Erika Michaelsen Koch girls' association . From 1998 she studied in Germany and in 2000 obtained a Masters in European Studies from RWTH Aachen University . In 2002 she completed her doctorate in political science under Helmut König with a thesis on the role of coming to terms with the past in system change using the case study Chile. During her studies in Germany she received a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation .

After her return to Chile in 2002, she worked at the think tank Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo as a research assistant for the management of political projects until 2005 and in 2005 became academic director of the School of Government at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. She then returned to the Institute for Freedom and Development as head of the Politics and Society program. Von Baer worked several times as an advisor to various Chilean politicians, taught at the political science faculty of the private Universidad del Desarrollo and was a regular guest at a discussion program on Chilean television (TVN).

Political activity

As a candidate for the right-wing Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI), Ena von Baer applied for the office of senator in the Araucanía Sur district in 2009 and narrowly failed. In 2010 she supported the candidate of the conservative electoral alliance Alianza por Chile , Sebastián Piñera , in the campaign for the presidential elections as campaign spokeswoman. From March 2010 to July 2011, she was Minister in the General Secretariat of the Government for Communications and Press (Government Spokeswoman) in the first Piñera cabinet . On July 27, 2011, she moved up to the Senate for the Santiago Oriente constituency as the successor to Pablo Longueira , who was appointed Minister of Economics, and thus became the youngest female senator in the history of Chile. In the 2013 elections, she was elected to the Senate for the electoral district of Región de Los Ríos for the 2014–2022 term. There she works in the committees for education and culture, for home affairs, decentralization and regionalization and for maritime affairs and fisheries as well as in the joint budget committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Positions

Even after she lost her post as government spokeswoman at Piñera's first cabinet reshuffle in July 2011 due to very poor poll numbers, she was present in the media with controversial statements and debates on various occasions. In the discussion about the loosening of the abortion ban in Chile , which the opposition was seeking at the time , she declared in March 2012 that women also had no right to so-called therapeutic indications (after rape, if the mother's life was at risk and if the fetus was unable to survive) Abortion because they would only have "given" their bodies to the emerging life. This statement was contradicted, among others, by the writer María José Viera Gallo, and Ena von Baer received sharp criticism from MPs of the social democratic PPD . Today she regrets her statement as the pay-TV channel Via X intimated. Baer's assessment of the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989) is ambivalent: On the 30th anniversary of usually as a prelude to the Chilean transition to democracy under consideration and date for the end of the dictatorship referendum of 5 October 1988, with a further term of Augusto Pinochet in Presidential Palace was prevented, she said on Radio Bío-Bío that the policies pursued during the dictatorship in Chile laid the basis for the country's economic rise and made it possible "that Chile today can dream of being a developed country."

Party donation scandal

At the end of 2014, von Baer was one of the politicians involved in the so-called “Pentagate”. These politicians were investigated by the Chilean tax investigation agency SII for tax evasion. It was about the inadmissible solicitation and use of donations to finance the election campaign for the 2013 presidential election in Chile, which the conservatives lost .

Publications

  • The role of coming to terms with the past in a system change. Case study Chile (dissertation, Aachen 2004).
In the years from 2007 onwards, the work has appeared in print on various occasions at the PoD publishing companies of the VDM Group , most recently under ISBN 978-3-639-41712-8 .

Web links

Commons : Ena von Baer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Rittberger : Why an Optimist? Goethe-Institut Chile, April 2014, accessed on November 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Lilian Olivares: Karina y Ena Von Baer: Las empoderadas hijas de la Araucanía, con sangre alemana. In: La Segunda , August 11, 2012, accessed November 9, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Krämer: Helga von Baer, ​​social worker. In: Cóndor , July 24, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019.
  4. ^ Arturo Alejandro Muñoz: El lupino ruso, las semillas transgénicas y los nazis. In: El Siglo , No. 1568 (July 22, 2011), pp. 10-11 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Rodrigo Aguilera: Erik von Baer: “No produco transgénicos”. In: Revista Nos , August 2014, accessed November 9, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ^ "Mi mayor temor es padecer una enfermedad dolorosa". In: El Austral de Temuco , September 11, 2005, accessed November 9, 2019 (Spanish).
  7. ^ Luis Aránguiz Kahn: Evangélicos y política. In: Oikonomos , Edition 2 (March 2012), pp. 16-20 (Spanish, on Ena von Baer: p. 19).
  8. ^ Daniel Lenski: La historia de la Iglesia Luterana en Chile. Information on the ILCH website, accessed on November 10, 2019 (Spanish).
  9. ^ Chile: New government - Sebastián Piñera sworn in. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 62 kB). Hanns Seidel Foundation, March 11, 2010.
  10. ↑ Chile: Sebastián Piñera presents his cabinet (PDF; 519 kB). Konrad Adenauer Foundation, February 11, 2010.
  11. ^ El nuevo Golpe de la UDI. In: El Siglo , No. 1568 (July 22, 2011), p. 8.
  12. ↑ Gabriela Ulloa: “Mi cuerpo es mío”: Escritora dedica carta a Ena by Baer tras polémica por aborto terapéutico. In: Radio Bío-Bío , March 14, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2019 (Spanish).
  13. ↑ Alejandro Núñez: Diputados PPD condenan polémicos dichos de Ena Von Baer: 'La mujer no es un vientre de alquiler'. In: Radio Bío-Bío , March 14, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2019 (Spanish).
  14. ↑ Excerpt retweeted by Ena von Baer on Twitter , October 17, 2019, accessed on November 11, 2019 (Spanish).
  15. ↑ Ena von Baer: "La dictadura permitió hacer soñar a Chile con el desarrollo". In: La Izquierda , October 7, 2018, accessed November 10, 2019 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ The UDI's black cash registers. , Chile's political system is falling into a crisis of confidence
  17. ↑ Christina Horsten: The perception of German reunification in Latin America. A study of press coverage in 1989 and 1990 in Chile, Nicaragua and Paraguay (dissertation, Berlin 2016), p. 219 (bibliography).
personal data
SURNAME Baer, ​​Ena from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baer Jahn, Ena Anglein from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Temuco