Volbrecht Nagel (3 November 1867 – 12 May 1921) was a German missionary to the Malabar coast of India.

Volbrecht Nagel was born on 3 November 1867 in Stammheim (belonging to the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

[1] At the age of 18, Nagel claimed to have been born again after hearing the gospel from a cobbler turned itinerant preacher.

The burden of running the schools and the small-scale industries of the Basel Mission in Vaniankulam became a stumbling block in his goal of independent ministry.

[3] A few months after their marriage, they went to the Nilgiris and met the English Open Brethren Missionary Handley Bird.

In 1906, he started an orphanage and a home for widows at Nellikunnu near Thrissur City named Rehoboth,[1] which still stands today.

The letter he sent to the assembly fellowship in Paravur in 1917 reflects the hunger in his heart for souls in Malabar.

Nagel is regarded with great esteem by the Malayalee Christian community for all his work in bringing the Gospel to Kerala.