Albanus Schachleiter

German Benedictine monk, friend of Adolf Hitler

Reverend Albanus Schachleiter (January 20, 1861 – June 20, 1937) was a German Benedictine monk and abbot emeritus of the Prague Emmaus Monastery.

Hitler greeted Benedictine Abbot Albanus Schachleitner and Ludwig Müller – the Protestant Archbishop of Nuremberg – at a Nazi Party event in 1934.

Schachleiter, a Catholic monk from Mainz, was a close friend of Adolf Hitler,[1] the leader of Germany responsible for World War II and the Holocaust which killed at least 6,000,000 Jews (67% European Jews).[2]

Schachleiter died on 20 June 1937 at Feilnbach in Upper Bavaria. Hitler ordered a state funeral for him.[1]

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    • "EX-ABBOT SCHACHLEITER; State Funeral Ordered for Nazi Supporter by Hitler". The New York Times. June 21, 1937. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
    • Doino Jr., William (2008). "Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism". First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (187). Institute on Religion and Public Life: 61–63. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
    • Brown-Fleming, Suzanne (2014). "Real-Time Narrative Responses to Nazism: March/April 1933 in Germany and Rome". Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte. 27 (1): 120–136. doi:10.13109/kize.2014.27.1.120. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
    • Rossi, Lauren Faulkner (2015). Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674286382-intro. Retrieved December 26, 2024.