Matthias Koehl

Matthias Koehl Jr. (January 22, 1935 – October 9, 2014) was an American Marine, 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 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.

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 and played violin with the civic opera. A teenage anti-Semitic activist, Koehl worked with hate groups on the East Coast and the South before joining George Lincoln Rockwells infamous American Nazi Party. and served in the United States Marine Corps.

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.

In August 1967, formerly a Deputy Commander, 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. 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 Nazism having alienated some members. Although he maintained 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.

Death

Koehl died in the night between October 9 and 10, 2014, at the age of 79 of complications related to cancer.

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

Sources

* '' Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity'' by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001,
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* ''Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party'' by William H. Schmaltz, 2000,


* ''American Fuehrer : George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party'' by Frederick J. Simonelli, 1999, and
* ''Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism'' by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1998,

External links

New Order webpage


transcript of remarks by Matt Koehl


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by Jim Saleam
* ttp://www.heretical.com/miscella/hbarrett.html Pierce, Koehl and the National Socialist White People's Party Internal Split of 1970by 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

Neo-Nazis: Longtime Hitlerian Activists
on the Anti-Defamation League's website.
* FBI files obtained under the FOIA, hosted by the Internet Archive:

Chicago FBI office file part 1

Chicago FBI office file part 2

Chicago FBI office file part 3

Chicago FBI office file part 4

Chicago FBI office file part 5

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