Feizollah Namdar

Feizollah Namdar
Born	December 23, 1919 Baku, Russia
Died	March 22, 2001 Lenzburg, Switzerland
NSA member	Luxembourg 1962 - 1964 Switzerland 1965 - 1984

Feizollah Namdar (December 23, 1919 - March 22, 2001) was a Russian Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assemblies of Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Biography

Namdar was born in Baku, Russia, in 1919. He moved to Iran in 1943 and worked in radio as a technician and broadcaster and he was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith and declared while in Iran.

Namdar moved to Europe at some point where he worked for engineering firms. He settled in Germany in 1954 and married Ursula Mauthe there in 1956. He later pioneered to Luxembourg and he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Luxembourg in 1962 when it was established. He moved to Switzerland and was elected to the Swiss National Spiritual Assembly in 1965 serving on the body until 1984.

In 1989 Namdar made a trip to Russia as a representative of the Bahá’í International Community and he met with the Russian Council on Religious Affairs to attempt to negotiate for the Bahá’í Faith to be officially registered as a religion in Russia. He visited Russia frequently throughout the 1990's serving as a liaison between the Russian government and the Bahá’í community and assisting fledgling Bahá’í institutions in the country.

In later life Namdar served as a lecturer at the Bahá’í inspired Landegg Academy in Switzerland and helped establish the Institute of Spiritual Foundations at the Ukrainian University for National Progress. He passed away in Lenzburg, Switzerland, in 2001.