Louis Weichardt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLouis Weichardt
South African politician
Date of Birth: 21-May-1894
Place of Birth: Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa
Date of Death: 26-Oct-1985
Profession: politician
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Louis Weichardt
- Louis Theodor Weichardt (21 May 1894 – 26 October 1985) was a South African political leader, born in Paarl of German extraction, who founded the Greyshirts, a National Socialist organization. In Cape Town, on 26 October 1933, he founded the South African Christian National Socialist Spider Movement with a paramilitary section (modeled on Nazi Germany's brown-shirted Sturmabteilung) called the Gryshemde or Grayshirts.
- He was Interned during World War II, and afterward worked with Oswald Pirow's New Order.
- Disbanding his party in 1948, Weichardt gave his allegiance to Daniel François Malan's National Party.
- He became senator from Natal Province from 1956 to 1970.
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