Background
Thadden-Trieglaff, Reinold von was born on August 13, 1891 in Mohrungen, East Prussia, Germany.
Thadden-Trieglaff, Reinold von was born on August 13, 1891 in Mohrungen, East Prussia, Germany.
Student, Sorbonne, Paris. Student, also universities Leipzig, Munich, Greifswald. Doctor of Laws, 1920.
Doctor of Theology (honorary), University Kiel, 1948. Doctor of Theology (honorary), University Paris, 1959. Doctor of Divinity, University Aberdeen, 1953.
Doctor of Divinity, University Chicago, 1954. Doctor of Laws, Wittenberg College, 1955.
President Student Christian Movement, Germany, 1928. Vice president Pomeranian Provincial Synod, member Prussian General Synod in Berlin, 1929. Vice chairman World's Student Christian Federation, 1937-1949.
President Pomeranian Council of Brethren, member National Council Brethren. Spokesman German laity to World Conference on Life and Work, Oxford, 1937. Assisted establishment World Council Churches in Geneva, also Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, member central committee World Council Churches, chairman Ecumenical Institute, 1948-1954.
Founder Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, rally of Protestant laity, 1949, president, 1949-1964, honorary president, from 1964.
Served as major during war-time occupation of Belgium. Arrested, imprisoned as civilian, by Russian Army.
Son of Adolf von Thadden and Ehrengard von Gerlach. Married Elizabeth Freiin von Thüngen, January 19, 1921. Children: Ernst-Dietrich, Leopold, Franz-Lorenz, Bogislav, Rudolf.