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Ludwig Raiser

German jurist (1904-1980)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ1874891 ↗
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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 from 1970 to 1973.

He was the father of Konrad Raiser, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ludwig Raiser” is german jurist (1904-1980). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ludwig, Raiser and German, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904, 1980, 1961, 1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-10-27. For this dossier, Ludwig, Raiser and German is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1874891. VIAF identifies the subject as 25395063. The Library of Congress control number is n83164783. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1904, 1980, 1961 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ludwig Raiser” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.