Uwe Siemon-Netto

Uwe Siemon-Netto was a lay theologian and internationally renowned journalist from Leipzig, Germany. He reported on major world events for 60 years. Having survived the Allied bombing of his hometown as a child, he grew up to cover the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, and the Vietnam War. Dr. Siemon-Netto and his wife, Karen, lived in southern California as a writer and a Senior Distinguished Fellow of 1517.

Baptized into Christ, Uwe died in the LORD (1936-2025), and will be raised to life eternal when Christ Jesus comes again. "For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his" - Romans 6:5.