Pastor Werner Dullinger (53) is the new President of the South German Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In Altena, the governing body of the Union Conference (Executive Committee) chose Dullinger before completing the official term of office (2017), as his predecessor, Pastor Rainer Wanitschek, has been elected by the end of October as Departmental Director of the Adventist Church Leadership in Western and Southern Europe (Inter-European Division), based in Bern, Switzerland.
Werner Dullinger was born in Deggendorf, Bavaria, and graduated at the former Theological Seminary Marienhoehe of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, located in Darmstadt. From 1980 to 1984 he was a youth pastor in Munich, and since 1990 Dullinger is an ordained minister in Marburg an der Lahn. From 1987 to 1989 he studied at the Adventist Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan / USA, and graduated with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) in theology.
From 2003-2006 Dullinger attended a Master's program in "Leadership and Administration" at the Andrews University. In 2007 he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in the South German Conference. Werner Dullinger is married and has two adult children.
The South Union German Conference, based in Ostfildern, near Stuttgart include 15,508 adult baptized members worshipping in 221 churches.
