Max Nelsen

Maynard Orlando Nelsen also Max Nelsen (January 1, 1924 - October 1, 2008) was a post-war white nationalist activist from the Minneapolis and Chicago area.

Background

Max Nelsen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both of his parents (Nels Nelsen and Inga Djuvik) were immigrants from Norway.

During World War II Nelsen was stationed in New Guinea and later received disability compensation.

In August 1950 he graduated from the Minneapolis Business College receiving a diploma in business administration. Later he was employed as comptroller for several small companies.

In November 1953 he married Thea Kappl from Regenstauf, Germany.

Political activism

He first became interested in the Jewish role behind Communism after he attended a Gerald L.K. Smith rally in Minneapolis during the summer of 1946.

He was one of the founders of the Realpolitical Institute. In 1947 Nelsen founded the Minneapolis-based Democratic Nationalist Party. During this period Nelsen was sentenced to six months in a work house for posting racist posters on a college campus.

In the late 1950s he became a local leader of the National States Rights Party. Nelsen was also an associate of Emory Burke, Eustace Mullins, and George Lincoln Rockwell. In the early 1960s he headed the Institute for Biopolitics which later became the Sam Adams Committee of Public Safety. Most of the organizations Nelsen headed were one-man operations to promote his political beliefs and to distribute his literature.

In 1954 Max Nelsen contacted the FBI in Chicago and claimed he was the head of a vast underground right-wing organization. Other unreliable comments by Nelsen led the FBI to conclude he was a "mental case."

Pamphlets

• Build a White America

FOIA FBI file

• FBI file Chicago 1A [1]
• FBI file on Democratic Nationalist Party, Max Nelsen, Minneapolis-1 [2]

External links

• Photos of Nelsen in a tailor-made Luftwaffe-style "Nazi" uniform [3] [4]
• Max Nelsen poem, "Goodbye!" [5]