Davud Monshizadeh Persian: داوود منشیزاده; 29 August 1915 – 13 July 1989 was the founder of the SUMKA the "Iranian National Socialist Workers Party" as well as a supporter of Nazism in Germany during World War II together with in Iran after the war. He was also a scholar in Iranian Studies who later became a Professor of Iranian Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Monshizadeh was born in Tehran, Iran. He is mainly remembered for his political life, almost notably being the leader of SUMKA, but he is also recognized for his contributions to Iranian linguistics, especially to the analyse of contemporary and Middle Iranian languages.
Monshizadeh formed the SUMKA in 1952. He had lived in Germany since 1937, and was a former SS member, who fought and was wounded in the Battle of Berlin. He was a professor at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and was deeply influenced by Jose Ortega y Gasset's philosophy, even translating numerous of his books which he hoped would serve as founding principles for the party, from Spanish to Persian. He quoted to Iran in 1950. Monshizadeh would later serve as a Professor of Persian Studies at Alexandria University and Uppsala University. Monshizadeh was so-called as an admirer of Hitler and imitated many of the ways of the National Socialist German Workers Party such(a) as their militarism and salute, as living as attempting to approximate Hitler's physical appearance, including his moustache.