Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer

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Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (31 March 1881 – 15 October 1952) was a

Methodist Church, elected in 1946 for service in Germany
.

Birth and family

Johann was born 31 March 1881 in

Stuttgart, Germany
, of German and English ancestry. 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

Caius College, Cambridge, in England,[1] and in Switzerland. From 1906 until 1912 he was a Methodist missionary in the Ottoman Empire. He also attended Methodist Conferences in Lausanne (1927) and in Edinburgh (1937). He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Free Church Council of Germany. 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.

Episcopal ministry

Johann was elected to the

Frankfort-on-Main
Episcopal Area (which included the Central, Northeast, Northwest, South and Southwest Germany Annual Conferences).

Bishop Sommer died 15 October 1952 in Zurich, Switzerland. Bishop Sommer's son, Ernst, was elected to the episcopacy in 1968.

References

  1. ^ "Sommer, John William Ernest (SMR900JW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  • Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Parthenon Press, 1948.
  • Short, Roy Hunter, Bp., History of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church 1939-1979, Nashville, Abingdon, 1980.

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