LWF-SR Staffing (~1947-1952)<\/h1>\n
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With its beginnings in 1947, Lutheran World Federation Service to Refugees became a program with diverse leadership and many different staffing needs. This page aims to understand the program through its people. In other words, this page unpacks LWF executive staff, LWF-SR staff in Germany and Austria, and finally the important smaller roles that allowed LWF-SR to provide aid to thousands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> President:<\/strong> <\/span>Dr. Anders Nygren (Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n Vice presidents: <\/strong><\/span>Dr. Abdel Ross Wentz (United States) and<\/span>\u00a0Bishop Lajos Ordass (Hungary)<\/span><\/p>\n Members of the executive committee:<\/strong> <\/span>Dr. Franklin Clark Fry (U.S.), Dr. J. A. Aasgaard\u00a0 (U.S.), Dr. P. O. Bersell (U.S.), Bishop Dr. N. Beste (Germany) , Mr. Charles Delbruck (France), Bishop Dr. Teodor Gr\u00fcnbergs (Latvia), Dr. Alfred J\u00f6rgensen (Denmark), Rev. Joel Lakra (India), Bishop Dr. Hanns Lilje (Germany), Bishop Dr. Hans Meiser (Germany), Bishop Johannes Smemo (Norway), Prof. Dr. Ernst Sommerlath (Germany), and Prof. Dr. Osmo Tiilila (Finnland)<\/span><\/p>\n Executive Secretary:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Sylvester C. Michelfelder\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Before the official staff began to form, LWF had multiple workers on the ground in Germany to scout out needs or provide resources. For instance, under Dr. Sylvester C. Michelfelder<\/strong>, chief European representative of LWF American Section, Dr. Clifford Ansgar Nelson<\/strong> worked on documenting the needs of refugees in Germany. Dr. Julius Bodensieck<\/strong>\u00a0worked as \"Protestant liason\" between the American military government and the German Church.\u00a0 Rev. Carl Schaffnit<\/strong> also did chaplaincy work in the various Allied Zones, and many others worked with CRALOG (Council of Relief Agencies Licensed for Operation in Germany).1<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Thus, before even the official programming began, there were plenty of workers on the ground connected to the roots of LWF-SR and ready to assist those in need.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Dr. Stewart Herman:<\/strong><\/span> head of resettlement staff and then director of LWF-SR in Geneva<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Howard Hong:<\/strong><\/span> head of spiritual ministry and welfare staff and then senior field representative in Germany*<\/span><\/p>\n Paul M. Lindberg:<\/strong><\/span> senior field representative in Germany after Howard Hong<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. John Schmidt:<\/strong><\/span> senior field representative in Germany after Howard Hong<\/span><\/p>\n Henriette Lund:<\/strong><\/span> director for Austria\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Alvin E. Fritz:<\/strong> <\/span>director for Austria after Henriette Lund<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. Arnold W. Nelson:<\/strong><\/span> director of British Zone*<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. Carl Mau:<\/strong><\/span> director of British Zone after Arnold Nelson<\/span><\/p>\n Kenneth C. Senft:<\/strong> <\/span>(deputy) director of the American Zone<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. Vernon Strempke:<\/strong><\/span> director of the American Zone after Kenneth Senft<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. G. Dietrich:<\/strong><\/span> director of Ethnic Germans in the American Zone<\/span><\/p>\n Theodore Hong:<\/strong><\/span> business manager<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Around June 1949, due to policy complications, LWF-SR found itself with two separate staffs for Germany: spiritual ministry and welfare (under Howard Hong) and resettlement (under Stewart Herman). To solve the problem and unite the staffs again, LWF-SR assigned new roles for the leaders of these staffs: field representative in Germany (Howard Hong) and director of Service to Refugees in Geneva (Stewart Herman).2<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Serving their own, displaced pastors and persons took up an overwhelming amount of the program staff for LWF-SR as well as smaller roles along the way. Here are just a select few based on their nationalities and which Allied Zone they were in:<\/p>\n Latvian (in American and French Zones)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Rev. Dr. Karlis Bilzens:<\/span><\/span> director of youth work<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. Fridrichs Kramins:<\/span> house father at Berchtesgaden<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. Janis Rozentals:<\/span> director of chaplaincy service<\/span><\/p>\n Rev. Prof. Feliks Treijs:<\/span> program director at Berchtesgaden<\/span><\/p>\n Georg Odins:<\/span> resettlement secretary\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>![\"Original](\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/lwf-refugee-service\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1702\/2023\/07\/Bad-Salzuflen-Staff-Meeting.jpg\" "\\"Bad")
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First on the Ground<\/h1>\n
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Note about Titles<\/h2>\n
Displaced Pastors<\/h1><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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