# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-klassen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:49.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-klassen"
name: "Ben Klassen"
slug: "ben-klassen"
description: "Bernhardt \"Ben\" Klassen was an American white supremacist politician and writer who founded the Creativity new religious movement when he published the book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973. Klassen was openly racist, antisemitic and anti-Christian and first popularized the term \"Racial Holy War\" (RaHoWa) within the white supremacist movement."
tagline: "American engineer, author and politician (1918-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bernard_Klassen.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1918-02-20"
deathDate: "1993-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump