William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce III. , Pseudonym Andrew Macdonald (born September 11, 1933 in Atlanta , Georgia , † July 23, 2002 in Mill Point , West Virginia ) was an American National Socialist publicist. He was the founder and leader of the National Alliance and a member of George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party (ANP). He was best known as the author of the racist novel The Turner Diaries (1978).
Life
Pierce skipped a grade at school, spending the last two years of high school at a military school. After he had finished this in 1951, he worked for a short time as an unskilled worker on an oil platform. He received a scholarship to study physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1955. He then worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and then continued his studies at Caltech , later at the University of Colorado at Boulder . There he obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1962. From 1962 to 1965 he taught as an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University .
The physics lecturer gave up his academic activity in order to be able to devote himself entirely to spreading his largely neo-Nazi worldview. As a white separatist, he founded the National Alliance for this purpose in 1970 , published a magazine and several books in his publishing house National Vanguard , created the radio program American Dissident Voices and built up a large mail order business with distribution channels. Pierce was especially notorious for his novel The Turner Diaries (dt. 'The Turner Diaries') (1978), which he published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald and which may have been the model for several politically motivated assassinations .
In 1999 the neo-Nazi Hendrik Möbus, wanted in Germany, fled to Pierce and was taken in by him. Möbus helped expand the Resistance Records label , and he also wrote under the pseudonym "Hagen von Tronje" (based on the character from the Nibelungen saga ) for Resistance magazine .
Fonts
- 1978 The Turner Diaries
- 1989 Hunter
literature
- Robert S. Griffin : The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds . Self-published, 2001, ISBN 0-7596-0933-0 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ RS Griffin: The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds. 2001, pp. 29/30.
- ^ A b William Pierce Biography. Anti-Defamation League , 2007, accessed July 18, 2007 .
- ^ William L. Pierce: Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Modern Political Biography. Oxon Helicon Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-85986-273-X , p. 604.
- ↑ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos . exp. and revised Output. Index Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936878-00-4 , p. 324 f.
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| SURNAME | Pierce, William Luther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pierce III, William Luther (full name); Macdonald, Andrew (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American National Socialist publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlanta , Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2002 |
| Place of death | Mill Point , West Virginia |