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Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf was born to Karl Albert
Uchtdorf and Hilde Else Opelt Uchtdorf on November
6, 1940 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Dieter
Uchtdorf was a Lufthansa|Lufthansa Airlines
executive prior to his appointment on April 7,
1996 to serve in The First Quorum of The Seventy
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Uchtdorf was sustained as a member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 2, 2004
at the 174th Semiannual General Conference of the
Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was ordained on
October 7, 2004 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.
Uchtdorf was called to fill the vacancy created by
the death of Elder Neal A. Maxwell, who died on
July 21, 2004. Although Uchtdorf is the 93rd
person to hold the Apostleship since the Church
was organized in 1830, he is only the eleventh
Apostle to be born outside the United States.

Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet Reich Uchtdorf,
have two children and five grandchildren.

==References==

*
http://www.lds.org/newsroom/biography/0,15609,3959
-1----62,00.html Official Biography
*
http://lds.org/newsroom/extra/0,15505,3881-1---3-8
68,00.html Apostles born outside the United States
*
http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,
23-1-520-14,00.html General Conference address

==External Resources==

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 before=Henry B. Eyring |
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Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf was born to Karl Albert
Uchtdorf and Hilde Else Opelt Uchtdorf on November
6, 1940 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Dieter
Uchtdorf was a Lufthansa|Lufthansa Airlines
executive prior to his appointment on April 7,
1996 to serve in The First Quorum of The Seventy
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Uchtdorf was sustained as a member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 2, 2004
at the 174th Semiannual General Conference of the
Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was ordained on
October 7, 2004 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.
Uchtdorf was called to fill the vacancy created by
the death of Elder Neal A. Maxwell, who died on
July 21, 2004. Although Uchtdorf is the 93rd
person to hold the Apostleship since the Church
was organized in 1830, he is only the eleventh
Apostle to be born outside the United States.

Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet Reich Uchtdorf,
have two children and five grandchildren.

==References==

*
http://www.lds.org/newsroom/biography/0,15609,3959
-1----62,00.html Official Biography
*
http://lds.org/newsroom/extra/0,15505,3881-1---3-8
68,00.html Apostles born outside the United States
*
http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,
23-1-520-14,00.html General Conference address

==External Resources==


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