Matt Koehl

Matt Koehl
2nd Commander of the American Nazi Party
Incumbent
Assumed office August 25, 1967
Preceded by	George Lincoln Rockwell
2nd & 4th Leader of the World Union of National Socialists
Incumbent
Assumed office April 9, 2009
Preceded by	Colin Jordan
In office August 25, 1967 – 1968
Preceded by	George Lincoln Rockwell
Succeeded by	Colin Jordan
Personal details
Born	Matthias Koehl Jr. January 22, 1935 (1935-01-22) (age 76) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Political party	National Renaissance Party United White Party National States' Rights Party American Nazi Party (Current)
Residence	Wisconsin
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Occupation	United States Marine, activist, politician
Religion	Esoteric Hitlerism
Website	Website

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Matt Koehl (full name Matthias Koehl Jr.) (born January 22, 1935) is the leader of a self-defined religious organization called the New Order. As deputy commander^[1], in August 1967 Koehl succeeded the assassinated George Lincoln Rockwell as 'Commander' of the National Socialist White People's Party (which had been known until December 1966 as the American Nazi Party^[2]). Koehl renamed the organization "New Order" in 1983. He is currently also the leader of the World Union of National Socialists despite the fact that in the past his advocacy of Hitlerism as a religious movement alienated some members.^{[citation needed]}

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin of Hungarian immigrants of German descent, he studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee^[3] and served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He joined James Madole's National Renaissance Party, the United White Party, and the National States' Rights Party before the American Nazi Party in 1960.

Like Miguel Serrano, he was heavily influenced by the writings of Savitri Devi and is an advocate of esoteric Hitlerism, believing Hitler to have been a god-like being sent to rescue humanity - specifically the European peoples - from extinction. He was a very close friend of Florentine Rost van Tonningen.

Although maintaining a low public profile, Koehl granted an interview to mainstream writer William H. Schmaltz in Arlington, Virginia in April 1996 during preparation of that author's biography of George Lincoln Rockwell.

Works

• The Future Calls (1972)
• Some Guidelines To The Development Of The National Socialist Movement
• The Program of the National Socialist White People's Party (Cicero, IL: NS Publications, 1980)
• Faith of the Future (1995)

Sources

• American Fuehrer : George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by Frederick J. Simonelli ISBN 0-252-02285-8 and ISBN 0-252-06768-1
• Hate : George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz ISBN 1-57488-171-X (review 1)
• Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 (review 1, 2)
• Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1998, ISBN 0-8147-3111-2

References

1. ^ "Nazi Chapter to Celebrate Hitler Birthday (AP)". The Free-Lance Star via Google news. April 14, 1967. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3_VNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CYsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3733,1793860&dq=deputy-commander+koehl&hl=en. Retrieved August 3, 2011. 
2. ^ "Nazi Party Changes Name (AP)". The Free-Lance Star via Google news. December 19, 1966. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U-BNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DIsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3724,8511771&dq=national-socialist-white-people%27s-party&hl=en. Retrieved August 2, 2011. 
3. ^ Milwaukee Journal September 4, 1967

External links

• Koehl's 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
• Neo-Nazis: Longtime Hitlerian Activists on the Anti-Defamation League's website.

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Name	Koehl, Matt
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Date of birth	January 22, 1935
Place of birth	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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