I am suddenly curious as to the nationalities of current and previous GB members. Can any of our archivists help?
Nationalities of the GB members.
by mtbatoon 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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greendawn
I believe that most of them were/are Americans with some British, if I remember well there was a German back in the eighties and one of Greek origin (Gangas), they had to be local boys that were part of and well known by the inner circle of the Brooklyn leadership. They had to be submissive society men.
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mtbatoon
I'd guess that they have been mainly U.S and a few U.K. I'd also guess that no non-Europeans have held the position.
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LongHairGal
In the beginning they were heavily German American. It has been said that some would make ethnic slurs from time to time and make fun of other ethnic groups.
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martorii
One of them I think is from Austria, Gerit Leosch
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A Paduan
No coloured folk ? Maybe jerhovah miraculously turned them white so they could be happy - like the man quoted in the jerhovahs witness article, who "people say that his color was changed in answer to prayer". Perhaps he prayed thus because he believed how "the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race."
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stillajwexelder
Samuel Herd - African American
Jack Barr - British-Scottish
Losch - Austrian
Carey Barber - born in Britain -England but may have Canadian Nationality
Sydlik - I am sure he is Slavic but not 100% sure
The rest are WASP american
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blondie
Carey W. Barber (1905-)
Born on the 4th of July 1905, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England.
John E. Barr (1913-)
Born in 1913, in Aberdeen (Scotland), in a family of Bible Students.
Samuel F. Herd (1935-)(Afro-American)
Samuel Herd was elder in a small congregation of Arkansas, U.S.A.,
Theodore Jaracz (1925-)
Theodore Jaracz was born in 1925. He was baptized sometime in the 40s.
M. Stephen Lett (1949-)
Started as pioneer on December, 1966.
From 1967 to 1971 served in Brooklyn Bethel.
Gerrit Lösch (1941-)
Gerrit Lösch was born in 1941 (in Austria)
He was pioneer since November 1, 1961 and was circuit and district overseer in Austria between 1963 and 1976.
Guy H. Pierce (1934-)
Guy and his wife, Penny, started working as pioneers in April 1982, after they raised their children.
Between 1986 and 1997, Pierce was circuit overseer (in the U.S.A.?)
Albert D. Schroeder (1911-)
Albert D. Schroeder was born around 1911 in Saginaw (Michigan, E.U.A.)
Particularly did I have warm memories of my maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Darger. Her parents brought the family to Michigan from Germany sometime before 1870. She taught German and English in the public schools and lived with us in the home of my Lutheran parents in Saginaw, Michigan, the city of my birth.
David H. Splane (1944-)
David Splane started as pioneer in September 1963.
Belonged to the 42nd Gilead class and was missionary of Jehovah's Witnesses in Senegal.
Daniel Sydlik (1919-)
Daniel Sydlik was born in February 1919, near Belleville, Michigan (U.S.A.), where his family lived in a farm.
Karl F. Klein (1906-2001)
Karl F. Klein was born around 1906, in Southern Germany.
In 1910 his family moves to the United States (Blue island, Chicago suburbs).
Lyman A. Swingle (1910-2001)
Lyman Alexander Swingle was born on November 6, 1910, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was baptized in 1923.
Milton G. Henschel (1920-2003)
Born on August 9, 1920.
He was baptized while adolescent and in 1939 was already Bethelite.
W. Lloyd Barry
Lloyd Barry was born in New Zealand on December 20, 1916
John Booth (d. 1996)
As a young man back in 1921, John Booth was searching for purpose in life. He taught Sunday school at the Dutch Reformed Church,
Frederick Franz
(d. 1993)Brother Franz was born on September 12, 1893, in Covington, Kentucky.
Martin Poetzinger
Brother Poetzinger was born on July 25, 1904, in Munich, Germany
George Gangas (d. 1994) Greek William K. Jackson Grant SuiterIN 1922, when I was 14 years old, my father moved our family from Chicago, Illinois, to California.
Thomas Sullivan Ewart Chitty (resigned 1980)My mother came to appreciate God’s truth in 1912, and I remember that she tried to interest me in spiritual things. But at the age of fourteen it made no appeal, except that I realized she had got hold of something that meant everything to her. Two years later World War I started, and it was not long before the young men of Britain had to take life seriously.
Raymond V. Franz John GrohHe was born at Kulm, North Dakota, on July 3, 1906, and as a young man became a university-trained research metallurgist.
Nathan KnorrNathan Homer Knorr was born at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1905, of American-born parents.
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mtbatoon
Thanks blondie. Interesting the amount of German influence in the GB.
Maybe they can trace their ancestry back to the Bavarian Illuminati? I'm sure some will say so.