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 (german: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated EKD) is a federation of twenty Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United (e.g. Prussian Union) Protestant regional churches and denominations in Germany, ...
from 1970 to 1973.
He was the father of
Konrad Raiser
Konrad Raiser (born 25 January 1938) is a former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
Biography
Born in Magdeburg, Germany on 25 January 1938, Raiser spent his childhood in Schwerin, Göttingen and Bad Godesberg. After grad ...
, 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, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most ju ...
.
References
* https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118597957.html
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Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
1904 births
1980 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German legal scholars
German Protestants