He was the founder of the German Faith Movement.

The development of the German Faith Movement revolved around four main themes:

Reventlow quickly became disillusioned with this however, returning to Christianity even before the German Faith Movement was suppressed by the government in 1937.

Reventlow's antisemitism was never racial, as was Hitler's, but cultural, and this led to his involvement with the German Faith Movement.

Among the many reservations about the German Faith Movement, one reason for abandoning it was what Drews and others perceived as blatant antisemitism.

The NSDAP quickly got rid of the "German Faith Movement", which proved an unnecessary nuisance.

The German Faith Movement was favorably assessed by the Swiss religious psychologist Carl Jung in his 1936 essay "Wotan".

However, Jung sees the German Faith Movement as "decent and well-meaning people who honestly admit their Ergriffenheit and try to come to terms with this new and undeniable fact."

Reventlow's cultural (but not racial) antisemitism led him to accept joining forces with Hauer in organizing a conference in July 1933 that would create another entity, the German Faith Movement.

The German Faith Movement led by Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during 1933-1945 propagated a move away from Christianity towards an "Aryan-Nordic religion", partly inspired by Hinduism.

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As a result, the Southwest Association of Free Religion, in which Drews's Karlsruhe Free Religion Society was a member, soon withdrew from the German Faith Movement.

Through the Landslaget for frilyndt kristendom and its journal, Fritt ord (Free Word), Schjelderup came in contact with Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, founder of the German Faith Movement.

The German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung) was closely associated with Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during the Third Reich (1933-1945) and sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion based on National Socialism.

He joined with Ernst Graf zu Reventlow in this endeavour and in 1934 founded the German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung), which combined a number of existing communities in a Völkisch faith influenced by Hinduism.

In the early 20th century, Western occultists influenced by Hinduism include Maximiani Portaz - an advocate of "Aryan Paganism" - who styled herself Savitri Devi and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, founder of the German Faith Movement.

They forget to mention that Drews and his Free Religion colleagues abandoned the German Faith Movement and dissociated themselves from Hauer and Reventlow as soon as it became clear that the two leaders' ambition was much more political than authentically religious.

Raeder was especially opposed to giving chaplain status to the neo-pagan "German Faith Movement" because his arch-enemy Reinhard Heydrich was sponsoring it, and he believed that allowing neo-pagan chaplains was a "Trojan Horse" intended to allow Heydrich's people into the Kriegsmarine.