Joachim Siegerist
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Werner Joachim Siegerist (born as Werner-Joachim Bierbrauer, 29 January 1947 - 28 January 2023)
Siegerist was born in
Following the liberation of the Baltic countries from Soviet occupation, he became a Latvian citizen in 1992 and was elected to the Saeima at the 1993 election for the Latvian National Independence Movement (LNNK), which became an influential party. The same year he was a member of a coalition whose candidate Ziedonis Čevers was nominated 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.
Siegerist was ejected from the LNNK group in 1994. In response, he founded the
He has written several books that have sold several million copies.
References
- ^ "Joachim Siegerist". Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on 29 June 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ Riga ist nicht Weimar - DER SPIEGEL 47/1995