Matt Koehl
Matthias Koehl | |
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2nd Commander of the American Nazi Party |
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In office August 25, 1967 – October 9, 2014 |
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Preceded by | George Lincoln Rockwell |
Succeeded by | Rocky Suhayda |
2nd and 4th leader of the World Union of National Socialists |
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In office April 9, 2009 – October 9, 2014 |
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Preceded by | Colin Jordan |
In office August 25, 1967 – 1968 |
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Preceded by | George Lincoln Rockwell |
Succeeded by | Colin Jordan |
Personal details | |
Born | Matthias Koehl, Jr. January 22, 1935 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Wisconsin, United States |
Political party | National Renaissance Party United White Party National States' Rights Party American Nazi Party |
Residence | Wisconsin, United States |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
Occupation | United States Marine Politician Writer |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Matthias Koehl, Jr. (January 22, 1935 – October 9/10, 2014) was an Hungarian-American marine of the United States Marine Corps and a National Socialist politician and writer. He succeeded George Lincoln Rockwell as the leader of the National Socialist White People's Party (which had been known until 1966 as the American Nazi Party) after his death in 1967, serving as leader until his own death in 2014.
Like the Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano, Koehl was influenced by the 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.
Biography
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, to Hungarian immigrants of German descent, Koehl studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[1] and served in the United States Marine Corps.
Koehl died in the night between October 9 and 10, 2014, at the age of 79.[2]
Politics
Matthias 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.
In August 1967, formerly a Deputy Commander,[3] Koehl succeeded the assassinated George Lincoln Rockwell as Commander of the National Socialist White People's Party, known until December 1966 as the American Nazi Party.[4] In 1983, Koehl renamed the organization "New Order". At the end of his life, Koehl was the leader of the World Union of National Socialists, despite his affiliation with Esoteric Hitlerism, having alienated some members.
Although maintaining a low public profile, Koehl granted an interview to mainstream writer William H. Schmaltz in Arlington, Virginia, in April 1996 during the preparation of Schmaltz' biography of George Lincoln Rockwell.
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
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Litterature
- Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 (2)
- Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz, 2000, ISBN 1-57488-171-X (review 1)
- American Fuehrer : George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by Frederick J. Simonelli, 1999, ISBN 0-252-02285-8 and ISBN 0-252-06768-1
- Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1998, ISBN 0-8147-3111-2
External links
- New Order webpage
- Who is Hitler? transcript of remarks by Matt Koehl
- Populism And Socialism In American Nazism, chapter five of American Nazism In The Context Of The American Extreme Right: 1960–1978 by Jim Saleam
- Pierce, Koehl and the National Socialist White People's Party Internal Split of 1970 by H. Michael Barrett
- THE KU KLUX KLAN AND THE AMERICAN NAZI PARTY: CASE STUDIES IN TOTALITARIANISM AND FASCISM by Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie Shanks-Meile[dead link]
- Neo-Nazis: Longtime Hitlerian Activists on the Anti-Defamation League's website.
- FBI files obtained under the FOIA, hosted by the Internet Archive:
- Articles with dead external links from August 2012
- 1935 births
- 2014 deaths
- People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- American people of German descent
- American people of Hungarian descent
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
- United States Marines
- 20th-century American writers
- American male writers
- Writers from Wisconsin
- American anti-communists
- American fascists
- American National Socialists