Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann

Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann (23 October 1799 – 21 February 1882) was a German copper engraver and later founder and pastor of the first Baptist congregation in Berlin.

He found contact with a conventicle of young men during these years and attended revivalist edification meetings held in various private homes.

[4] Through his wife Maria Johanna Eleonora, née Eichner, whom he married on 26 October 1827,[5] Lehmann became acquainted with the Moravian Brethren, whose worship life also made a great impression on him.

After initial difficulties with the authorities, his congregation was sponsored by King Frederick William IV from 1854 at the instigation of Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen, but was not able to obtain corporate rights until 1879.

[6] Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann died in Berlin in 1882 and was given an honorary grave (Ehrengrab) in the Luisenstadt I Evangelical Cemetery [de] in Berlin-Kreuzberg.