Siegfried Leffler

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