HITLER BACKS NAZI TO LEAD GERMAN LUTHERANS
Berlin, Germany • September 23, 1934 On this date in 1934 Ludwig Mueller, a crew-cut former naval chaplain, was installed as the new Reich Bishop in a gaudy spectacle at the swastika-bedecked Berlin Cathedral. The year before, 1933, German chancellor Adolf Hitler had proposed, as part of an administrative overhaul of the German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church,…

