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

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politician and writer. He succeeded

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as the longest serving leader of the

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, from 1967 to 2014. Like the Chilean diplomat

Miguel Serrano Miguel Joaquín Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernández, known as Miguel Serrano (10 September 1917 – 28 February 2009), was a Chilean diplomat, writer, occultist, and fascist activist. A Nazi sympathiser in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he la ...

, Koehl was influenced by the

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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

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to Hungarian immigrants of German descent, Koehl studied journalism at the

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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

. and served in the

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Politics

Koehl joined James Madole's National Renaissance Party, the United White Party, and the

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, before joining the

in 1960. In August 1967, formerly a Deputy Commander, Koehl succeeded the assassinated

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

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, despite his affiliation with

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having alienated some members. Although he maintained a low public profile, Koehl granted an interview to mainstream writer William H. Schmaltz in

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, in April 1996 during the preparation of Schmaltz' biography of

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

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, 2001,
2
* ''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

chapter five o

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

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's website. *

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files obtained under the FOIA, hosted by the

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:
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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