Lauck, Gerhard, 1953-

LC control no.	no2014120387
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lauck, Gerhard, 1953- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Lauck, Gary, 1953-
Found in	The New Order, no. 23 (March 1979): page 2 (editor: Gerhard Lauck) Souther Poverty Law Center website, viewed September 11, 2014: Gary "Gerhard" Lauck page (b. May 12, 1953. From his home in Lincoln, Nebraska, he changed his name from Gary to Gerhard at age 19. Lauck spent his early years as a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist White People's Party (the successor organization to the American Nazi Party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell) and, later, the Chicago-based National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) led by Frank Collin. Lauck, who also founded the NSDAP/AO (the German language acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party/Overseas Organization, the translated name of the original Nazi party's overseas unit), exported or smuggled millions of pieces of neo-Nazi propaganda in 10 languages to at least 30 countries and became a key player in the resurgence of German neo-Nazism in the 1990s as a result. Arrested in 1995 in Denmark, Lauck would wind up spending four years in prison in Germany for his activities. By the time he emerged, the Internet had supplanted him as an easy-to-mine source for neo-Nazi propaganda in countries where it is illegal)