| Birth Date: | 31 August 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Church: | Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio American Lutheran Church |
| Congregations: | Marion, Wisconsin
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| Offices Held: | President, Joint Synod of Ohio (1924-1930) and ALC (1931-1937) |
Carl Christian Hein (August 31, 1868 – April 30, 1937) was an American Lutheran clergyman.
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Hein moved to the United States in 1884.[1] He became pastor of a Lutheran church in Marion, Wisconsin, in 1889, and then moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1891, where he became pastor of a church there. He moved again to Columbus, Ohio, in 1902, where he pastored a church there for twenty-three years.[1]
In 1924 he was elected president of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio, that organization's last president.[2] He became the first president of the American Lutheran Church in 1931, and held that position until his death.[1] He opposed a suggested merger between the American Lutheran Church and the United Lutheran Church in America due to his group's opposition to joining Masonic Lodges, which the ULCA tolerated.[3]