David Eden Lane

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David Eden Lane (pseudonym "Wodensson"; born November 2, 1938 in Woden , Iowa , † May 28, 2007 in Terre Haute , Indiana ) was an American right-wing extremist and supporter of the ideology of White Supremacy .

Life

Lane was born in 1938 as one of four children to a severely alcoholic farmer in Iowa. With four years he was supported by a fundamentalist-oriented Lutheran family adopted . His adoptive father, a pastor in various churches in the Texas, Colorado, and Midwestern areas, took him to masses and Bible studies, so Lane developed an aversion to the Christian faith.

After college , Lane initially made his living as a realtor, but was fired from the job for not selling houses to Jewish and black families. In the 1970s he joined the Ku Klux Klan , but was kicked out of the Klan by Fred Wilkins due to leadership disputes. He tried then with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan by David Duke at forward, but stayed there only briefly.

Lane allegedly was a supporter of the John Birch Society for a short time in the 1960s and developed pronounced anti-Semitism based on a Jewish world conspiracy . At the same time, however, he also rejected the conservative, patriotic Americans. Rather, he developed a nationalist and racist ideology that saw the root of all evil in America today. In his eyes, a “white” state should be in place of today's America. His first pamphlet was accordingly about the " Death of the White Race " ( Death of the White Race , late 1970s).

In 1981 he joined the Aryan Nations - a militant right-wing organization based on Christian Identity - and became the leader of the group in Colorado . In July 1983 he met Robert Jay Mathews at a congress of the Aryan Nations and on September 22, 1983 was one of the nine founding members of the group The Order , a terrorist organization that promoted the liberation of the USA from the Zionist Occupied Government and a total victory for the Aryan race aspired to. As a member of this group, Lane participated in the 1984 murder of the Jewish radio host Alan Berg as a driver . For this murder and other crimes, he was sentenced to a total of 190 years in prison, which he was to serve in the ADX Florence Federal Prison in Florence, Colorado . However, due to various propaganda crimes and an unsuccessful escape attempt, he was transferred several times to high-security prisons .

Lane is best known in right-wing extremist circles as the originator of the so-called Fourteen Words , a condensed version of the ideology of American neo-Nazis. Another invention of his is "WOTAN", an acronym for Will of the Aryan Nation . WOTAN is intended as a paramilitary branch in Louis Beam's Leaderless Resistance and is intended to separate the underground fighters from the legal arm of the White Power movement.

In addition, in prison he became an advocate of a " pagan " America that must break away from both Judaism and Christianity (as part of a Jewish world conspiracy). His ideology accordingly consisted of pagan, Gnostic , theosophical , numerological and ariosophical set pieces. He is also the founder of the Wotansvolk , a right-wing extremist religious community that invokes the Germanic god Wotan . Together with his wife Katja Lane (née Maddox) he founded this association in the early 1990s. This has belonged to the Temple of Wotan since 2000 . While Lane developed the ideology journalistic out of prison, his wife was responsible for the organization. The third person was Ron McVan , who, as a publisher and publicist, transported the ideology to Scandinavia in 1990 and thus became the second great propagandist of the Wotan people alongside Lane.

David Lane died of an epileptic fit on the night of May 28, 2007 in Terre Haute Federal Prison , Indiana .

Fonts

  • Deceived, Damned, & Defiant: The Revolutionary Writings of David Lane. St. Maries, Idaho: 14 Words Press, 1999.

literature

  • Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : Black Sun - Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press 2002, ISBN 0-8147-3124-4 , pp. 270 ff.
  • Mattias Gardell : Gods of the Blood. The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Duke University Press, Durham, NC 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3071-7 , chapter "By the Spear of Odin: The Rise of Wotansvolk", pp. 191-257, especially p. 199 .
  • Mattias Gardell: David Lane. In: Jeffrey Kaplan (Ed.): Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Altamira Press, Washington, DC 2000, pp. 167-169 (preview) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mattias Gardell: By the Spear of Odin: The Rise of Wotansvolk . In: Gods of the Blood . Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3071-7 , pp. 191-192 .
  2. a b Stephen E. Atkins: Lane, David (1940-) . In: Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups . Greenwood Press, 2004, ISBN 0-313-31502-7 , pp. 167-168 .
  3. ^ Mattias Gardell: By the Spear of Odin: The Rise of Wotansvolk . In: Gods of the Blood . Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3071-7 , pp. 192-1993 .
  4. ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun - Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press 2002, ISBN 0-8147-3124-4 , p. 270.
  5. ^ A b David Lane on the Southern Poverty Law Center website
  6. ^ Mattias Gardell: By the Spear of Odin: The Rise of Wotansvolk . In: Gods of the Blood . Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3071-7 , pp. 194 .
  7. ^ Mattias Gardell: By the Spear of Odin: The Rise of Wotansvolk . In: Gods of the Blood . Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3071-7 , pp. 98 f .
  8. ^ Mattias Gardell: By the Spear of Odin: The Rise of Wotansvolk . In: Gods of the Blood . Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3071-7 , pp. 191-257 .