F. C. D. Wyneken

Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken ( born May 13, 1810 in Verden on the Aller, † May 4, 1876 in San Francisco) was a missionary, pastor and the second president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. He was also the first president of Concordia Theological Seminary.

One hundred years after the coming also from the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg Henry Melchior Muhlenberg had brought together the pastors and churches of colonial America, Wyneken gathered scattered German Protestants into confessional Lutheran congregations and forged them into a close-knit church family together. Wyneken's influence brought Wilhelm Sihler from Germany to the United States of America. Wyneken's missionary experience and method as well as its mission plan influenced the American Lutheran Mission for many years. He was named " after the lightning thunder " of the. His feast day in the calendar of the Missouri Synod is May 4

While he was regarded as " tireless " church worker, he himself admitted that he was " terribly from melancholy " litte.