Jorg Dittberner

JORG DITTBERNER joined the LDS Church in 1987 and served a mission in England shortly thereafter. He has completed a degree in Education at the University of Bremen and, after completing the required German classroom practicum, accepted a position teaching Biology at the German School in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently he is also a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Bremen.

One Hundred Eighteen Years of Attitude: The History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1

I believe the history of the Bremen Wards to be a good example of LDS history in Germany. The first branch was founded in January 1882 with seven members, and by the year 2000 there were 400 members in two wards. After a slow beginning there was in Bremen, as in all of Germany, a great deal of missionary success from the 1920’s to the Second World War and again in two periods after the Second World War (1946-1964, 1972-1987).