Berlin Foundling House was a German Protestant Christian missionary society that was involved in sending workers to China during the late Qing Dynasty.
The Berlin Foundling Society established a charitable mission in Hong Kong, where Rev.
Dr. Karl Gützlaff visited Berlin in that year, and gave such a graphic account of the distressing misery existing in China, that the wife of a Lutheran pastor, named Gustav Friedrich Ludwig Knak, resolved to seek to alleviate it.
Dr. Gutzlaff had spoken of the great number of infants cast away by their parents in China, and Mrs. (Mathilde Wendt) Knak formed a ladies association to organise a plan to rescue some of these foundlings.
In 1861 new and enlarged premises were built, the funds being supplied by foreign residents in Hong Kong and by benevolent donors in Germany.