Matthew Heimbach | |
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 Heimbach in 2015 | |
| Born | Matthew Warren Heimbach April 8, 1991 Poolesville, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | Towson University |
| Known for | White Student Union |
Matthew Warren Heimbach (born April 8, 1991) is an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi. He has attempted to form alliances between several far-right extremist groups.[1]
In May 2013, Heimbach and Matthew Parrott founded the Traditionalist Youth Network, which later morphed into the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), which ceased operation in March 2018. In 2018, Heimbach briefly served as community outreach director for the National Socialist Movement (NSM).[2] In early 2020, Heimbach and Parrott once again began collaborating on projects such as the Global Minority Initiative, a "prisoner aid organization",[3] and they publicly discussed a relaunching of the Traditionalist Worker Party.[4]
On March 13, 2018, Heimbach was arrested in Paoli, Indiana, on charges of domestic battery arising from a domestic dispute. Before his arrest, Heimbach had assembled a community of neo-Nazis and anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists in a Paoli, Indiana trailer park.[5] Heimbach was considered the leader of this community, and he had received media attention for his role in this regard, but he lost credibility following his arrest in 2018.[5]
Heimbach is a defendant in the Sines v. Kessler lawsuit which was filed by Integrity First for America, the lawsuit claims that he and other organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, "planned and promoted violence against [a] protected group."[6][7]
In 2016, in response to his racist beliefs and his violent actions, Heimbach was excommunicated from the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- ^ "Days after guilty plea, Matthew Heimbach re-emerges in new alliance with National Socialist Movement". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on May 15, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- ^ "Neo-Nazi group's new leader is a black man who vows to dissolve it". NBC News. Associated Press. February 28, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ^ Hay, Mark (March 13, 2021). "The Twisted Group Focused on Making Nazis Comfy in Prison". The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ Radio Free Indiana - 2021-01-08, retrieved July 13, 2021
- ^ a b Michel, Casey (May 16, 2018). "Following affair with mother-in-law, white supremacist heads to jail". ThinkProgress.org. ThinkProgress. Archived from the original on March 2, 2020. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
- ^ Progress, Tyler Hammel The (Charlottesville) Daily (July 15, 2019). "Defendant files another motion to be dismissed from rally lawsuit". Roanoke Times. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
- ^ Eligon, John (April 4, 2020). "He Says His Nazi Days Are Over. Do You Believe Him?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2020.