Paul Leo

Paul Leo (9 January 1893 in Göttingen – 10 February 1958 in Dubuque, Iowa) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian.

After graduating from High School (Gymnasium) in Göttingen, Paul Leo studied History and later Theology.

In the fall of 1926 he and eleven other pastors, including Otto Piper and Richard Karwehl, founded the Deinenser Konferenz which met twice a year to conduct theological discussions.

After six weeks of physical and psychological torture, he was freed at the end of December and told he had two months to settle his affairs and leave Germany.

On January 9, 1939 the SS Magazine, Das Schwarze Korps, printed an article vilifying Paul Leo.

On August 30, 1939, metal sculptor Eva Dittrich, whom he had met in the summer of 1937, arrived to join him in emigrating to the United States.

He earned enough to support his daughter and his future wife, whom he married[1] in the summer of 1940 in a Presbyterian chapel in Caracas, Venezuela.

Until 1943, Leo taught Greek at Western Theological Seminary, when the Lutheran Church called him to Karnes City, Texas.