Gerhard Wehmeier (1935–2009)[1] was an Old Testament Scholar hailing from Germany from the Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck.
[2] Wehmeier studied at the seminary in Bielefeld-Bethel and later at the Universities in Göttingen, Basel, Bonn and Atlanta in North America.
[1] Wehmeier began teaching Old Testament at the United Theological College, Bangalore from 1973 during the Principalship of J. R. Chandran.
It was Wehmeier who made possible[10] the overseas research studies of Daniel Sadananda, a New Testament Scholar and current President of the United Theological College, Bangalore Society.
Wehmeier showed himself as an ecumenical Christian with a comprehensive horizon through his work in India and the United States.