Wilhelm Germann

Wilhelm Germann (3 April 1840, in Gardelegen – 7 February 1902, in Meiningen) was a German Protestant theologian and missionary.

He studied theology in Erlangen and in 1864 became a member of the Lutheran Leipzig Mission. In 1865 he was ordained as a minister, and later the same year, began work as a missionary in Madras, India. In 1867 he returned to Germany, and subsequently served as a minister in Meiningen. In 1886, he was named a church councilor and superintendent in Wasungen. In 1894 he was awarded with an honorary degree by the Faculty of Theology at Leipzig.

Published works He is best known as the author of biographies, especially works involving missionaries to India, such as Johann Phillip Fabricius (1865), Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau (1868) and Christian Friedrich Schwarz (1870). In the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, he was the author of biographies on Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Georg Brückner and Wilhelm I of Henneberg-Schleusingen.