Davud Monshizadeh

Davud Monshizadeh
Born(1914-08-28)28 August 1914
Died13 July 1989(1989-07-13) (aged 74)
Uppsala, Sweden
Alma materFriedrich Wilhelm University
Political partySUMKA
Military career
Allegiance Germany
Branch Schutzstaffel
Battles / wars
FatherEbrahim Monshizadeh

Davud Monshizadeh (Persian: داوود منشی‌زاده; 28 August 1914 – 13 July 1989) was an Iranian Nazi, the founder of SUMKA (the "Iranian National Socialist Workers Party"), and a supporter of Nazism in Germany during World War II and in Iran after the war. He was a member of the SS and worked as a Nazi radio propagandist in Germany. He was also a scholar in Iranian studies who later became a professor of Iranian languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.