In Memoriam:
 

Douglas Winkleman
 

I AM SORRY to report the passing of our longtime National Socialist comrade, Douglas Winkleman.

Doug died from complications due to cancer on December 12, 2023. He was 66. Racial brother Winkleman is survived by his wife, five children and seven grandchildren. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was an officer in the Los Angeles Unit of the National Socialist White People's Party. He also served for a year at party National Headquarters in Arlington, Va., as Corresponding Secretary and aide to NSWPP Commander Matt Koehl. He held the rank of Team Leader in the NS Stormtroops.

Doug was born in Covina, California on September 17, 1957. He grew up in Pasadena, where he attended local schools. In the early 1970s, the school districts of Pasadena and Altadena were merged. Pasadena was then all-White, while Altadena was largely a Black ghetto. The purpose of merging the two school districts was to force civilized, middle-class White students to go to school with Blacks from the Altadena ghetto. As a result, there was sharp rise in racial tension and violence in the unified school district, which included Pasadena High School, which Doug attended.

In 1973, he drove himself down to the El Monte headquarters of the NSWPP and enrolled in its youth wing, the National Socialist Youth Movement. He immediately began to organize White resistance at PHS. During the Fall of his senior year, he was removed from classes and required to complete his studies at home. He was allowed to graduate. Upon graduation, he immediately joined the Party’s Stormtroops and volunteered for fulltime duty at the El Monte h headquarters, where he lived in the barracks room. For the next five years or so of his life, he devoted every waking moment to the cause of National Socialism and White Rights.

Comrade Winkleman subsequently served at the NSWPP national headquarters for a year, from July 1977 through August 1978. Among his other duties, he helped out in the Party’s editorial department, which was responsible for the design and production of printed material. There he employed his abilities as a sketch artist to draw cartoons, illustrations and graphs for party publications. He adopted the pen name “Gungnir,” which was the name of Odin’s spear in Norse mythology. This was an homage of sorts to the German National Socialist artist Hans Schweitzer, who drew posters and cartoons for the NSDAP under the name “Mjölnir,” which was the name of Thor’s hammer.

After a year at the Arlington headquarters, he returned to Southern California, where he led the local party organization. Sometime in the 1980s, he resigned from his position to complete his college education and start a family. Various anti-NSWPP splinter groups attempted to recruit Doug, but he remained loyal to Commander Koehl and refused their entreaties.

An obituary for Doug placed in a local Utah newspaper by his family noted:

He attended Cal Poly Pomona and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning. He owned a business appraisal company and worked for over 35 years. He enjoyed landscaping, the LA Dodgers, and history, particularly the Civil War. He loved taking walks and he loved dogs.

Doug Winkleman was one of my best friends, and a loyal comrade to the day of his death. I will miss him.

- Martin Kerr

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Below: Left, a stormtoop muster at the NSWPP Los Angeles headquarters in 1975, prior to a demonstration. Douglas Winkleman is the trooper on the far right, holding his helmet.

Right, s snapshot taken at a demonstration in Washington, DC, September 1977. Left to right: Comrade Winkleman (wearing NCO collar tabs), trooper Daniel O. and trooper Louis G.

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