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Willem Adolph Visser 't Hooft (20

September 1900 – 4 July 1985) was a Dutch theologian who became the first

secretary general of the World Council of Churches in

1948 and held this position until his retirement in 1966. Visser 't Hooft was

born in Haarlem, in the Netherlands and in his early adult years, was involved in

Dutch student Christian movement and soon became involved internationally. In

1925, while on his first trip to the United States with John R. Mott, he became interested in the "social

gospel" movement. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on it at the University of Leiden in

1928. From October 1929 (vol. 22, no. 4) through the third quarter, 1939

(vol. 32, no. 3), he served as editor of The Student World, a

quarterly magazine published in Geneva by the World's Student Christian

Federation. The magazine's motto was Ut Omnes Unum Sint. Visser 't

Hooft was active in the resistance against Nazism. His apartment in Geneva, Switzerland became the meeting place for members of

the German Resistance against

the Third Reich between March and April 1944. Hilda among the 15-16 people from countries all over

Europe who met to discuss international resistance to Nazism.

In

1938, Visser 't Hooft was named the first secretary general of the WCC, though

he was only 38 at the time. He wrote 15 books in several different languages

and numerous articles and some 50,000 letters.




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