Davud Monshizadeh (Persian: داوود منشی‌زاده; 28 August 1914 – 13 July 1989[1]) 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.

[3] He had lived in Germany since 1937, and was a former SS member who fought and was wounded in the Battle of Berlin.

[5] After the war, he was a professor at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and was deeply influenced by Jose Ortega y Gasset's philosophy, even translating many of his books (which he hoped would serve as founding principles for the party), from Spanish to Persian.

Monshizadeh was known as an admirer of Hitler and imitated many of the ways of the National Socialist German Workers Party (such as their militarism and salute), as well as attempting to approximate Hitler's physical appearance, including his moustache.