Frederick William Franz
Frederick William Franz (born September 12, 1893 in Covington , Kentucky , United States ; † December 22, 1992 ) was Vice President from 1945 to 1977, and from 1978 to 1992 President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society , the organization that covers the entire work of the Supervised Jehovah's Witnesses. He was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses .
Franz was born in 1893, he had three siblings. He attended college from 1911 to 1914, was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness on November 30, 1913, and then immediately set out as a full-time minister to preach the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses. He began serving on the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's writing committee in 1926 and died in 1992, still serving the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
family
- Raymond Victor Franz , author of The Conflict of Conscience , is the nephew of Frederick Franz. He was expelled from Jehovah's Witnesses in 1982 .
- Alvin Franz is the youngest of Frederick Franz's siblings. He left the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1925.
William Henry Conley (1881-1884) | Charles Taze Russell (1884-1916) | Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1917–1942) | Nathan Homer Knorr (1942–1977) | Frederick William Franz (1977–1992) | Milton George Henschel (1992-2000) | Don Alden Adams (2000-2014) | Robert Ciranko (since 2014)
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| SURNAME | Franz, Frederick William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Covington , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd December 1992 |