Wolfgang H. Paul

Wolfgang H. Paul (born Feb. 28th, 1940) is a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Paul has held several other positions in the church including having been the mission president who presided over missionary work in East Germany beganing in 1989. This marked the first time missionaries had been able to prosylte in East Germany in over forty years. Paul is one of only a few general authorities who have visited Turkey.

Paul was born in Munster, Germany. His parents were Johan Paul and his wife Berta Starbati.
His family were members of the LDS Church while he was growing up, but they were the only LDS people in their city. He then served in the military. On April 2nd, 1964 Paul married Helga Klappert in the Bern Switzerland Temple.

Paul graduated from the German Federal Government Administration Academy and served for several years as a government office of the Germany Federal Republic. Paul latter served as the Area Supervisor of Temporal Affairs for the LDS Church in the Europe West Area.

In church service callings Paul has served as a Regional Representative of the Twelve, counselor in a stake presidency, stake Young Men president, bishop, branch president and several other callings. Paul served as president of the Germany Hamburg Mission starting in 1988. When the Germany Dresden Mission was organized the next year Paul was made president of that mission.

While mission president in the Germany Dresden Mission Paul used TV guide adds to attract interest in the Book of Mormon.

In 1995 when Area Authorities were first called, Paul was the only Area Authority in the Europe East Area. Due to boundary changes he was latter assigned to the Europe Central Area. He was later reassigned to the Europe East Area and served for a time as a counselor in the presidency of that area, making him one of the few Area Seventies who have served in an area presidency. In 2005 Paul was called as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He now serves as a counselor in the Europe East Area Presidency.

Paul and his wife Helga are the parents of three children.

In August 2008 Paul was the featured speaker at a Young Single Adult conference in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Paul has also traveled to Adana, Turkey where he has addressed a branch conference that was functionally a district conference for a one district branch.

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