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Wolfgang Walter Droege (born September 25, 1949) is a Canadian white supremacist, neo-Nazi and one time leader of the Heritage Front.
Droege was born in Forcheim, Germany. His family had been enthusiastic supporters of the Nazis and Julius Streicher had been a friend of his father. Droege and his mother moved to Canada in 1952. In 1967, he moved back to Germany in order to join the military but was rejected. He moved back to Canada and became a Canadian citizen in the early 1970s. Droege became interested in far-right politics and joined the extremist group, the Western Guard in 1974 at the prompting of Don Andrews and later joined Andrews' Nationalist Party of Canada. In 1976 he joined the Ku Klux Klan then led by David Duke and attempted to start a branch in Toronto.
In 1981, Droege helped organise a failed attempt to invade the Caribbean nation of Dominica and overthrow its government in order to restore deposed Prime Minister Patrick John to power. The attempted coup turned sour after a Toronto reporter who had been propositioned with an "exclusive story" decided to contact the police. Droege was sentenced to a three year prison sentence for his mercenary activities
In 1985 he was arrested in Alabama as an illegal alien and charged with cocaine possession, as well as possession of an illegal knife. He served four years of a 13-year sentence. Upon his realease from jail in 1989, Droege went to Libya to attend a congress of what became the International Third Position and then returned to Canada to found the Heritage Front. The growth of the neo-nazi group prompted the creation of Anti-Racist Action in Toronto which devotes itself to combatting the Front and other groups. In 1993 following a brawl with ARA members, Droege was charged and convicted of aggravated assault and possession of dangerous weapons and serves two months of a three month term. Following his release from prison Droege drifted away from organised racial activity and worked for a time as a bailiff.