1957 - Lawrenz presidency

Seminary President Edmund Reim resigned his membership in the Wisconsin Synod and was dismissed as seminary president when he protested the synod’s continued fellowship with the Missouri Synod. Reim and others would eventually form the Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) and establish Immanuel Lutheran Seminary in 1960. Professor Carl Lawrenz became the next president of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, leading both the seminary and synod through these trying days.

Professor Carl Lawrenz

Professor Edmund Reim