Career
Monshizadeh helped form the Sumka in 1952. He was a former Steamship member and 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 would later serve as a Professor of Persian Studies at Alexandria University and Uppsala University.
Monshizadeh was known as an admirer of Hitler and imitated many of the ways of the Nazi Party (such as their militarism and salute), as well as attempting to approximate Hitler"s physical appearance.
1931 - Sent to France by Iranian government to study
1937 - Started his studies in Germany
1939 - Monshizadeh and Bahram Shahrokh (the future Iranian Propaganda Director) started working for the Persian program of Nazi Germany’s Deutsche Radio. 1940 - He started writing articles for Das Reich, the official newspaper of the German National Socialist party
1941 - He worked with various organizations in Nazi Germany
1943 - Obtained his doctorate in philosophy and literature from Berlin University
He was injured and hospitalized (off and on) till 1947.
1947 - Taught Iranology and Persian language in University of Munich
1950 - He returned to Iran
1951 - Along with Manouchehr Amir Mokri and Hussein Zarabi, he established the Iranian Nationalist Socialist Party (Sumka), which played a role against oil nationalization in Iran. 1953 - Monshizadeh was “Unofficially Exiled” to Europe by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1989 - He died in Uppsala, Sweden.