Matthew Q. Gebert

Matthew Q. Gebert (born c. 1981) is an American foreign affairs officer in the U.S. State Department, known for being suspended in August 2019 from his position after he was reported as a white nationalist by Hatewatch, a newsletter of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He had grown up in suburban New Jersey, and graduated from George Washington University in 2011. Gebert had studied abroad in and after high school and college in various programs.

Gebert joined the State Department in 2013, after passing rigorous exams and background checks. His brother reported him to the FBI in June 2019 for his activities, disturbed by his views and radicalization. Gebert is being investigated by the State Department. As of January 2020, Gebert is still active in the white nationalist movement.

Matthew Gebert is the older of two brothers in his family, and he and Michael grew up in Somerdale, New Jersey. He graduated from Sterling High School and was known for liberal views. He listened to hip hop, including the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. Voted by his class as "Most Likely to Succeed", Gebert had earlier participated in a student exchange program in Ukraine.

Gebert graduated from George Washington University in 2011. In 2001 he had participated in a study program in Moscow that was sponsored by American University. There he met his future wife, Anna Vuckovic, a Serbian-American student abroad in a study program of Northwestern University. Gebert also took other opportunities later for travel in Eastern Europe.

Gebert and Vukovic married in 2007, and have children together. They settled in Leesburg, Virginia, now a distant suburb of Washington, D.C.

According to his own account in a white nationalist forum, Gebert became radicalized in 2015. The reasons are unclear, although he had long been interested in Slavic culture and suggested the United States and the Slavic peoples had common interests. Gebert had studied and traveled numerous times in Russia and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union.

He became a white nationalist, leading a Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a neo-fascist cell called "The Right Stuff." He uses the online pseudonym "Coach Finstock", in addition to several others.

Gebert was confirmed by his brother as an attendee at a May 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as seen in a photograph.

In a podcast called "The Fatherland" in May 2018, Gebert was quoted as saying: "...[whites] need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split." In 2018, Gebert donated $200 to white supremacist Paul Nehlen's election campaign. He has hosted known white nationalists in his home in Leesburg, Virginia. In 2019 He shared an image of a swastika-shaped cookie with the caption: "From our pool party last night. Plate was stacked." The cookies were saved for special guests.

On July 2, 2019, Matthew Gebert's brother reported him to the FBI because: "I saw so much evil in my brother, I could not fucking deal with it". Following an investigation, as of August 8, 2019, Gebert was placed on leave from the State Department.