Jacques de Mahieu

Jacques de Mahieu (1915 — 1990) was a French academic and Nazi collaborator who taught mainly in Argentina.

Early life and political activities

Born in Paris, as a young man Jacques de Mahieu was influenced by authors such as Georges Sorel, Charles Maurras, or Alexis Carrel and joined the Action Française.

During World War II, Jacques de Mahieu was a member of the Charlemagne Division. After the Liberation of France, he was one of the first to flee to Juan Perón's Argentina through the ratlines organized by Perón and the Vatican. A Naturalized Argentine, he became an ideologue of the Peronist movement, before becoming a mentor to a Roman Catholic nationalist youth group in the 1960s.

Academic career

Jacques de Mahieu studied at the Universitites of Mendoza and Buenos Aires; he was graduated in philosophy, as doctor Honoris Causa of Medicine, doctor in economic sciences, and doctor in political science.

He became a professor of anthropological studies in Buenos Aires as the deputy rector of the Institute of Human Studies (from 1953 to 1955 and again from 1972 to 1976). He also taught economy, ethnography and French Language, at the National University of Cuyo (1948–1955), and at the Universidad del Salvador (1964–1965).

He also was a member of the Academia Argentina de Sociología (1952–1955), and a lecturer with the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic (1961–1971).

Works and later life

He wrote several books on esoterism, which he mixed with anthropological theories, creating "scientific racism" theories. He wrote as well on pre-Columbian America as on esoteric Nazism. He traveled in Paraguay for anthropological studies, and claimed the Guayaki tribes were descendants of the Vikings.

He allegedly travelled to Brazil in 1974, where he visited the Sete Cidades park in Piauí and considered it a Viking establishment.

Beside anthropological interests, Mahieu also wrote about economy and state questions, and his known rather for these questions than his esoteric hypothesis. He thus wrote a book titled The Communal Economy (1964), and a social and economic project inspired by him was developed in Mendoza, before being canceled by the Revolución Libertadora regime which toppled Juan Perón's government in 1955.

His work, in particular concerning the alleged history of Vikings purported to have become the elite of the Inca Empire, continues to inspire scientific racism theories and is quoted in quite a few such groups. His books on the Knights Templar alleged that they had found their secrets in Mexico before Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas.

Mahieu remained in Argentina in his later years. He was photographed with Carlos Menem during the latter's 1989 presidential campaign. Mahieu headed the Argentine chapter of the Spanish Neo-Nazi group, CEDADE, until his death in Buenos Aires, in 1990.

Bibliography

In French

Précis de biopolitique, Editions Celtiques, 1969 ; Le Grand Voyage du Dieu-Soleil, Robert Laffont, 1971 ; L'Agonie du Dieu-Soleil, Robert Laffont, 1974 ; Drakkars sur l'Amazone, Copernicus, 1977 ;

L'Imposture de Christophe Colomb, Copernic, 1979 ; La Fabuleuse épopée des Troyens en Amérique du Sud, Pardès, 1998 ; Les Templiers en Amérique, J'ai Lu, 1999 ;

In Spanish

La Inteligencia Organizadora, Editorial San Luis, 1950 ; Filosofía de la Estética, Editorial San Luis-Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 1950 ; Evolución y Porvenir del Sindicalismo, Ediciones Arayún 1954 ; La Economía Comuntaria, Universidad Argentina de Ciencias Sociales, 1964 ; Diccionario de Ciencia Política, Books International, 1966 ; Proletariado y Cultura, Editorial Marú, 1967 ;

Fundamentos de Biopolítica, Centro Editor Argentino, 1968 ; Tratado de Sociología General, Centro Editor Argentino, 1969 ; Maurras y Sorel, Centro Editor Argentino, 1969 ; El Estado Comuntario, Ediciones La Bastilla, 1973 ; El gran viaje del Dios-sol, Hachette, 1976 ; La Agonía del Dios Sol, Hachette, 1977 ; La Geografía Secreta de América, Hachette, 1978 ; El Rey Vikingo del Paraguay, Hachette, 1979 ;