Carl H. Mau
Carl Henning Mau (born June 22, 1922 in Seattle , † March 31, 1995 in Des Moines (Washington) ) was an American Lutheran theologian and general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF).
Life
Mau came from an old family of pastors in Schleswig-Holstein. His father emigrated from Kiel to the United States in 1907 . He attended Washington State College until 1944 and then studied theology at Willamette University , the University of Pennsylvania and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. In 1946 he was ordained as a pastor in the American Lutheran Church. Mau built a missionary congregation in Portland (Oregon) , then went to Germany in June 1950 for the Lutheran World Federation, where he worked as a consultant for interchurch aid in Hanover. For a time he was pastor in the Hanover regional church . In 1957 he returned to the United States and pastor the Luther Memorial Church in Tacoma . From 1960 he was a student pastor at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Lutheran Student Foundation.
From 1962 Mau was involved in holding the Fourth General Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Helsinki . In 1964 he became associate general secretary of the LWF in Geneva and in 1972 general secretary of the US National Committee of the LWF. On July 24, 1974, the full board elected him general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation at its meeting in Northfield. In this office he was particularly committed to reconciliation between East and West; thus in 1984 the first LWF assembly took place beyond the Iron Curtain (in Budapest ). After his tenure ended in 1985, Mau returned to the United States and took on a pastorate in Washington, DC. In 1989, he retired.
Awards
- Wichern Medal of the Diakonisches Werk
- Cross of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1957)
- Honorary doctorate in theology from Wagner College, New York
literature
- Meeting in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 1, 1979
- Norman A. Hjelm, Prasanna Kumari, Jens Holger Schjørring (eds.): From the World Federation to Community. History of the Lutheran World Federation 1947–1997 , Hanover 1997, pp. 448–451.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl H. Mau in the catalog of the German National Library
- A Gallery of Portraits: LWF General Secretaries Since 1947
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mau, Carl H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mau, Carl Henning (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1995 |
| Place of death | Des Moines (Washington) |