Siegfried Leffler

Siegfried Leffler was a Lutheran pastor, antisemitic member of the Nazi Party, which he joined in 1929, and was director of the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. Leffler and Julius Leutheuser were both pastors that led the Thuringian branch of the German Christian movement and they founded the German Christian Church Movement. The Godesberg Declaration, which pledged support for Adolf Hitler, was drafted largely by Leffler. He was also an editor for the newspapers Deutsche Christentum (English: German Christianity) and Die Nationalkirche: Briefe an Deutsche Christen (English: The National Church: Letters to German Christians).