High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schleitheim Confession was the most representative statement of Anabaptist principles, endorsed unanimously by a meeting of Swiss Anabaptists in 1527 in Schleitheim (Switzerland). The meeting was chaired by Michael Sattler. Michael Sattler was the leader of the Swiss and southern German Anabaptist movement. Shortly after the Schleitheim conference, Sattler was arrested by Austrian Roman Catholic authorities, he was put on trial along with a number of other Anabaptists; he was found guilty and was executed. The South German Ordnung of approximately the same date is similar to that of the Schleitheim Confession but contain many more Biblical references supporting the confession.:191,