Matthias Koehl
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Matthias Koehl | |
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| 2nd Commander of the American Nazi Party | |
| In office August 25, 1967 – October 9, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | George Lincoln Rockwell |
| Succeeded by | Rocky Suhayda |
| 2nd and 4th leader of the World Union of National Socialists | |
| In office April 9, 2009 – October 9, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Colin Jordan |
| In office August 25, 1967 – 1968 | |
| Preceded by | George Lincoln Rockwell |
| Succeeded by | Colin Jordan |
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| Born | Matthias Koehl Jr. January 22, 1935 United States Marine , politician, writer |
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Matthias Koehl Jr. (January 22, 1935 – October 9, 2014) was an American
neo-Nazi politician and writer. He succeeded George Lincoln Rockwell as the longest serving leader of the American Nazi Party
, from 1967 to 2014.
Like the Chilean diplomat
occultism of the Greek–French writer Savitri Devi. He was also a close friend of the Dutch World War II Nazi collaborator Florentine Rost van Tonningen
.
Early life
Born on January 22, 1935, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Hungarian immigrants of German descent, Koehl studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[1] and played violin with the civic opera. A teenage antisemitic activist, Koehl worked with hate groups on the East Coast and the South before joining George Lincoln Rockwell's infamous American Nazi Party and the Marine Corps.[2]
Politics
Koehl joined
James Madole's National Renaissance Party, the United White Party and the National States' Rights Party, before joining the American Nazi Party in 1960.[citation needed
]
In 1953, he claimed to have met with the poet and fascist activist Ezra Pound during Pound's imprisonment at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. In 1957, he became secretary-treasurer of the committee to Free Ezra Pound. Pound gave Koehl several signed volumes of his poetry during this period, signing them "Matthias Koehl / HEIL / Ezra Pound / 1953".[3]
In August 1967, formerly a deputy commander,Arlington, Virginia, in April 1996 during the preparation of Schmaltz' biography of Rockwell.[citation needed]
Death
Koehl died in the night between October 9 and 10, 2014, at the age of 79 of complications related to cancer.[6]
Works
- Some Guidelines to the Development of the National Socialist Movement (1969)
- The Future Calls (1972)
- The Program of the National Socialist White People's Party (Cicero, IL: NS Publications, 1980)
- Faith of the Future (1995)
References
- Milwaukee Journal, September 4, 1967.
- ^ "Old Berlin". Milwaukee Magazine. December 1, 2008. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ Hanson, Bradford (June 20, 2017). "Matt Koehl and Ezra Pound: The Untold Story". National Vanguard. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
- ^ "Nazi Chapter to Celebrate Hitler Birthday". The Free Lance-Star. Vol. 83, no. 88. Associated Press. April 14, 1967. p. 3. Retrieved August 3, 2011 – via Google News.
- ^ "Nazi Party Changes Name". The Free Lance-Star. Vol. 82, no. 297. Associated Press. December 19, 1966. p. 8. Retrieved August 2, 2011 – via Google News.
- ^ "Longtime Neo-Nazi Matthias "Matt" Koehl Dies". Southern Poverty Law Center. October 13, 2014.
Sources
- ISBN 0-8147-3155-4.
- Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Brassey's. p. review 1. ISBN 1-57488-171-X.
- Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer : George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06768-1
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (1998). Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism. NYU Press. ISBN 0-8147-3111-2.
External links
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- New Order webpage
- "Who is Hitler?". Archived from the original on September 1, 2004. Transcript of remarks by Matt Koehl.
- Saleam, Jim. "Chapter 5. Populism And Socialism In American Nazism". American Nazism In The Context Of The American Extreme Right: 1960–1978.
- Barrett, H. Michael. "Pierce, Koehl and the National Socialist White People's Party Internal Split of 1970". Heretical.
- Dobratz, Betty A.; Shanks-Meile, Stephanie. "THE KU KLUX KLAN AND THE AMERICAN NAZI PARTY: CASE STUDIES IN TOTALITARIANISM AND FASCISM". Transforming Sociology (125). Red Feather Institute. Archived from the original on August 29, 2004. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- Neo-Nazis: Longtime Hitlerian Activists on the Anti-Defamation League's website.
- FBI files obtained under the FOIA, hosted by the Internet Archive:
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