Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (31 March 1881 – 15 October 1952) was a bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1946 for service in Germany.
He was the eldest son of The Reverend Johann Jakob Sommer (1850-1925), a Methodist preacher who was arrested and reprimanded for persistent preaching in public places, and Zillah Elizabeth Barratt (1848-1935).
He was educated in Germany, at Kingswood School, Bath, and Caius College, Cambridge, in England,[1] and in Switzerland.
During World War II, his family lived in the basement of their looted home, and eight times he was called before the Gestapo for questioning.
Bishop Sommer was assigned to the Frankfort-on-Main Episcopal Area (which included the Central, Northeast, Northwest, South and Southwest Germany Annual Conferences).