Matthew Heimbach

Matthew Warren Heimbach (born April 8, 1991) is an American white supremacist who advocated a neo-Nazi ideology. He tried to form alliances between several far-right extremist groups. In 2018, Heimbach briefly served as community outreach director for the National Socialist Movement (NSM). He founded the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), which ceased operation in March 2018 until early 2020 when Heimbach and Matthew Parrott once again began collaborating on projects such as the "prisoner aid organization", which was known as the Global Minority Initiative while they were also publicly discussing a relaunching of the Traditionalist Worker Party. Before his arrest, Heimbach had assembled a community of neo-Nazis and anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists in a Paoli, Indiana trailer park. 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. 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." In 2016, in response to his racist beliefs and his violent actions, Heimbach was excommunicated from the Eastern Orthodox Church. Heimbach was born in Poolesville, Maryland. Heimbach's parents, Karl and Margaret Heimbach, are public school teachers whose political affiliation he describes as Mitt Romney-style Republicans. Heimbach says his views on race and immigration were formed early on by the writings of Pat Buchanan, especially his book The Death of the West, and particularly Buchanan's paleoconservative writing in American Renaissance. As early as his entrance to college, Towson University, he had begun to take in the writings of Jared Taylor, a self-described "race realist". In 2013 Heimbach received a Bachelor of Science in History from Towson University.