Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf is a German aviator, airline executive and religious leader. He currently serves as the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and is the eighth most senior apostle in the ranks of the church.
Uchtdorf was born to ethnic Germans Karl Albert Uchtdorf and Hildegard Else Opelt in Moravsk Ostrava , which at the time was in the Nazioccupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . When he was a child, his family moved to Zwickau in eastern Germany while his father was away in the army, traveling through areas being bombed. As a result of his grandmothers encounter with an LDS Church member in a soup line, Uchtdorfs family joined the LDS Church when he was still young.
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