Tomás Hirsch

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Tomás Hirsch
Santiago, Chile

Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt (born 19 July 1956) is a leftist

Chilean presidential election,[1]
winning 5.4% of the vote.

Biography

Hirsch was born in

Jewish-German parents. His mother, Lysa Goldschmidt, arrived in Chile before World War II, while his father, Jorge Hirsch, arrived in the country escaping from German Nazi
concentration camps.

During his youth, Hirsch became interested in Silo, an Argentinian writer and leader of a movement that inspired the founders of the Humanist Party.

In 1974 Hirsch began studying

Industrial Civil Engineering at the University of Chile
, but dropped out in 1978. Later he began working on his brother's photo company.

Hirsch is married to Juanita Vergara and has two children.

Political life

In 1983 Hirsch helped found the Humanist Party, the first political party legalized (1987) under the dictatorship of

Coalition of Parties for Democracy (CPD) and served as Chile's ambassador to New Zealand between 1990 and 1992, under the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin
. In January 1993, the Humanist Party withdrew from the CPD.

Hirsch unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the lower house of Congress in 1997 and for President in 1999, representing the Humanists.

Hirsch was a leading spokesperson for the victims of the

euphoria created by the election of the socialist president Michelle Bachelet
claiming that her government meant a continuation of the same for most Chileans.

Hirsch has a highly

Chilean presidential elections of 2005
. Hirsch has been arrested on a number of occasions by the Chilean police for taking part in demonstrations in support of political causes.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7910-9500-3
    . Retrieved 28 June 2011.

External links

Media related to Tomás Hirsch at Wikimedia Commons

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