Ludwig Raiser (27 October 1904 – 13 June 1980) was a German legal scholar. In 1961, he was one of the signatories of the Memorandum of Tübingen on West German foreign policy. He was President of the Synod of the

Evangelical Church in Germany The Evangelical Church in Germany (, EKD), also known as the Protestant Church in Germany, is a federation of twenty Lutheranism, Lutheran, Continental Reformed Protestantism, Reformed, and united and uniting churches, United Protestantism in Ger ...

from 1970 to 1973. He was the father of Konrad Raiser, General Secretary of the

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodo ...

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