Wyatt Kaldenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wyatt Kaldenberg 1957 (age 68–69) California, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Years active | 1978–present |
Wyatt C. Kaldenberg (born 1957) is an Americanwhite supremacist and a supporter ofTom Metzger'sNeo-NaziWhite Aryan Resistance (WAR) organization. He is also anOdinist (a type ofGermanic neopaganism), and an author of several books.
Kaldenberg was born in a working-class Mormon family in a small California town in theMojave Desert. As a teenager he was associated with theYoung Socialist Alliance, aTrotskyist organization.[1]
Enrolling in a Job Corps training programme in Salt Lake City in the 1970s, Kaldenberg became "aware of racial realities" after having fights with blacks and Muslims.[1]
In the early 1970s Kaldenberg joined Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance. He was the managing editor of their paperWAR[1]: 178 until 1989[2] and Metzger's bodyguard.[3]
In October 1990, theSouthern Poverty Law Center and theAnti-Defamation League won a civil judgement against Metzger and WAR on behalf of the family ofMulugeta Seraw, who was murdered bywhite power skinheads associated with the group. Metzger then encouraged his supporters to send donations to Kaldenberg rather than to him or to WAR, in order to avoid paying the judgement. In January 1991, Kaldenberg was the subject of a court order freezing his funds, pending court review.[2] Just hours after the order was issued, he began withdrawing money from the frozen account, and was ordered to return it by a San Diego municipal judge. When Kaldenberg refused to obey the order, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail forcontempt of court.[4]
Kaldenberg was briefly involved withStephen A. McNallen's Ásatrú Free Assembly but left when McNallen ejected Nazis from that organization.[5] Kaldenberg and other "Aryanists" who left the AFA at that time went on to found theGreater Los Angeles area chapter of the Odinist Fellowship.[5]
After leaving the AFA, Kaldenberg developed a distinct variety of Odinism. He devalues spirituality and ceremony and rejects Judeo-Christianity. According toNicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Kaldenberg's version of the ideology is "chiefly a cult of aristocracy, power and the propagation of the white race."[5]
Kaldenberg began publishingPagan Review in the 1990s which was described as "a voice of Eurocentric polytheistic communities."[5]