Background
Wilhelm Leber was born in Herford in Westphalia.
Wilhelm Leber was born in Herford in Westphalia.
In 1975 he earned his doctorate in mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main with a dissertation entitled Konvergenzbegriffe für lineare Operatoren und Stabilitätsaussagen. After earning his degree, he began working at the University of Hamburg. When in 1992 his predecessor retired, he was ordained as a District Apostle and given charge of the regional churches in Bremen and Hamburg, and in 1994 also the church of Mecklenburg.
On May 19, 2013, he was succeeded as Chief Apostle by Jean-Luc Schneider.