Bonhoeffer argued that, whereas earlier forms of leadership were associated with a statesman, a father, or a benefactor, the new leadership of Germany, the Verführer, was self-derived, self-defined, self-justifying, and completely and terrifyingly authoritarian. Bonhoeffer went on to claim that this new Führer Prinzip (leadership principle) arose from the post-First World War generation in Germany, which was seeking meaning, guidance, direction, and purpose. Both Bonhoeffer and Drucker suggest that the central idea of the Führer Prinzip is a bastardization of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch, leader and superman.According to this passage, the authoritarian form of leadership was