Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Vorbestellungen	Frist
Zweigstelle: Hauptstelle	Standorte: WB II:2740 / Magazin	Status: Verfügbar	Vorbestellungen: 0	Frist:

The Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life (also: Eisenacher Institute) was an anti-Semitic institution of eleven German Protestant regional churches during the National Socialist era. It was founded on May 6, 1939 in Eisenach at the instigation of the church party German Christians (DC) and existed until 1945.

The head of the institute was the Oberregierungsrat Siegfried Leffler. Full-time employees were:

Walter Grundmann, professor for the New Testament at the University of Jena, as scientific director

Heinz Hunger, pastor in Eisenach, as managing director

Max Adolf Wagenführer, theologian in Jena, as scientific assistant.

 

Walter Grundmann: The de-Jewification of religious life as a task of German theology and the church

As part of its public relations work, the institute published lists of employees in the association's communications. The first of these lists from December 30, 1939 named around 90, the second from December 31, 1940 around 130 names. Further lists from September 25 and December 15, 1941 named around 33 "new employees of the institute". Only a few of the persons listed wrote their own contributions for the association's communications and publications of the institute; most of them were more like supporters. The lists show a total of 37 people in church leadership positions (bishops, state superintendents, superintendents), 91 pastors and 69 university professors or other academics.