Robert K. Dellenbach

Who is Robert K. Dellenbach?

Robert Kent Dellenbach was an American educational administrator and has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1990. He was the eighteenth general president of the Young Men organization of the LDS Church from 1998 to 2001.

Dellenbach was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Clinton, Utah. After high school, he served as an LDS Church missionary in West Germany for 30 months. Upon returning to the United States, Dellenbach earned a degree from the University of Utah and an MBA degree from Brigham Young University. Dellenbach became a vice president with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and later became president of the Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage. He also worked for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and the Institute for Advanced Technology of Control Data Corporation in Rockville, Maryland.

Prior to his call as a church general authority, Dellenbach was a bishop, stake president, and a Regional Representative of the Twelve Apostles in the church. He was the president of the Germany Düsseldorf and the Germany Munich Missions of the church.