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 ...
.
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