# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S83
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 83

More General Resolutions.

A. Concerning Salaries.

Committee No. 12 was to give its opinion on the memorials and
requests of the boards of oversight of our schools regarding the
regulation of professors' salaries, and submitted to the Reverend
Synod the following report, which was adopted unchanged.

"The salaries of the professors at our schools were last revised
here in St. Louis twelve years ago. In that revision, individual
cases took account of special circumstances that made an increase, or
respectively a reduction, of the salary appear just. These
circumstances have in part changed over the years. The committee
therefore considered it just to first undertake a new regulation in
this regard. This the committee has done, by lowering the salary of
some professors and raising that of others.

"In particular, it became apparent that the salary of the professors
and directors of the preparatory institutions that the synod has, over
the last ten years, raised to full schools, had not been increased
correspondingly. Your committee has therefore done away with this
distinction in revising the salary lists.

"Finally, your committee could not close its eyes to the fact that
the past decade has seen a steady rise in the price of all necessary
means of living, and that a general increase in the professors'
salaries should in fairness also take place. We have therefore, after
suitably equalizing the salaries, raised them by ten percent, and we
recommend that the Reverend Synod approve this, and thereby give the
congregations of the synod a good example for raising the salaries of
their pastors and teachers."

After such equalization and increase, the salary list would stand as
follows:

                              St. Louis.

                          Annually.                              Annually.
D. F. Pieper . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,800.00   Prof. G. Mezger . . . . . . . . . 1,650.00
D. G. Stöckhardt . . . . . . . . . . 1,430.00    Prof. W. H. T. Dau . . . . . . . . 1,650.00
Prof. L. Fürbringer . . . . . . . . 1,650.00     Prof. E. A. W. Krauß . . . . . . . 1,430.00
Prof. F. Bente . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650.00

                             Springfield.

Prof. R. Pieper . . . . . . . . . . $1,320.00    Prof. F. Streckfuß . . . . . . . . 1,210.00
Prof. J. Herzer . . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00     Prof. O. Böcler . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00
Prof. L. Wessel . . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00

                             Fort Wayne.

Dir. M. Lücke . . . . . . . . . . . $1,320.00    Prof. L. W. Dorn . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00
Prof. G. Schick . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00     Prof. J. Schmidt . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00
Prof. A. Crull . . . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00    Prof. W. H. Kruse . . . . . . . . 1,210.00
Prof. F. Zucker . . . . . . . . . . 1,210.00     Prof. W. L. Moll . . . . . . . . . 1,100.00

Note. Prof. L. W. Dorn was voted a gratuity of $200.00.