Ludwig Müller

Ludwig Müller was a pastor, theologian and Nazi. He studied theology at the universities of Halle and Bonn. Müller was ordained in 1908, became a parish priest in Rödinghausen and was a chaplain in Wilhelmshaven during World War I. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and the Nazis gained control of Germany during 1933 and he became Reich Bishop. Adolf Hitler appointed Müller 'plenipotentiary of the Chancellor on Questions of the Evangelical Church'.