Wartburg College
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Wartburg College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Waverly, Iowa. Most popular majors include business administration, biology, elementary education, communication arts, music education/music therapy.
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History
Wartburg College was founded in 1852 in Saginaw, Michigan by Georg Grossmann, a native of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria. Georg was sent by Pastor Wilhelm Löhe to establish a teacher training school for German immigrants.
The location of the college moved many times between Illinois and Iowa until permanently settling in Waverly in 1935.
The college is named after Wartburg Castle in Eisenach, Germany.
Famous alumna
- Coleen Rowley, class of 1977, whistleblower FBI agent, researched suspected WTC terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, joint 2002 TIME "Person of the Year"
Presidents of Wartburg
- Georg Grossmann 1852-1868
- John Klindworth 1868-1875
- Georg Grossmann 1878-1894
- Friedrich Lutz 1894-1905
- Gerhard Bergstraesser 1905-1909
- August Engelbrecht 1909-1933
- Edward J. Braulick 1935-1945
- Conrad Becker 1945-1964
- John Bachman 1964-1974
- William Jellema 1974-1980
- Robert L. Vogel 1980-1998
- Jack R. Ohle 1998-Present
- Friedrich Richter 1894-1899 (Clinton IA)
- Otto Kraushaar 1899-1907 (Clinton IA)
- John Fritschel 1907-1919 (Clinton IA)
- Otto Proehl 1919-1935 (Clinton IA)