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Baptists in Germany can be documented as having existed since 1834, the year in which the first congregation was formed by Johann Gerhard Oncken, Barnas Sears and others, in Hamburg that became the nucleus of the Baptist movement in continental Europe.[1][2][3] Together with Oncken, Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann and Julius Köbner formed the "Baptist cloverleaf" of Germany, having a great impact on the movement.[4] Most German Baptists belong to the Union of Evangelical Free Churches, which is part of the Baptist World Alliance through the European Baptist Federation. Other German Baptist congregations, some with Russian-German roots, joined together in new unions beginning in the 1980s. In addition, other smaller congregational networks and a number of so-called free Baptist congregations emerged.
- ^ Randall, Ian M. (2009). "Every Member a Missionary. German Baptist Expansion". Communities of Conviction. Baptist Beginnings in Europe. Schwarzenfeld. pp. 59–69.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Baptist - History". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
- ^ Randall, Ian M. (July 2000). "'Pious wishes': Baptists and wider renewal movements in nineteenth-century Europe" (PDF). Baptist Quarterly. XXXVIII (7).
- ^ Lehmann, Joseph (1896). Geschichte der deutschen Baptisten (PDF) (in German). Hamburg: Druck und Verlag der Baptistischen Verlagsbuchhandlung.