Justus Jonas (5 June 1493 - 9 October 1555) was a German Protestant reformer. He was born at Nordhausen in Thuringia. His real name was Jodokus (Jobst) Koch, which he changed according to the common custom of German scholars in the sixteenth century, when at the University of Erfurt. He entered that university in 1506, studied law and the humanities, and became Master of Arts in 1510. In 1511 he went to Wittenberg, where he took his bachelors degree in law.

David of Augsburg, was a medieval German mystic, and a Franciscan friar. It is believed that he probably joined the Franciscan Order at Regensburg, where he filled the position of master of novices and wrote his acclaimed "Formula Novitiorum". *Christian mystics

Kurt Scharf (October 21, 1902 - March 28, 1990) was a German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

Johann Cochlaeus (1479 - January 10, 1552) was a German humanist and controversialist. Originally Johann Dobneck, he was born of poor parents at Wendelstein (near Nuremberg), from which he obtained the punning surname Cochlaeus (spiral), for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus. Educated at Nuremberg from the humanist Heinrich Grieninger, he entered the University of Cologne in 1504.

Paul Schneider (1897-1939) was a German Reformed Church pastor who was the first Protestant minister to be martyred by the Nazis. He was executed at Buchenwald. Paul Robert Schneider was born in Pferdsfeld, Germany in 1897, the second of three sons born to Gustav and Elizabeth Schneider. He had a strong love for his mother and a great respect for his father, who was a pastor and an ardent patriot.

Bertold of Regensburg (c. 1220-1272), the greatest German preacher of the later Middle Ages, was a native of Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan monastery there. He was a member of the Franciscan community founded at Regensburg in 1226. His novitiate was passed under the guidance of David of Augsburg; and by 1246 he is found in a position of responsibility. By 1250 at the latest, he had begun his career as an itinerant preacher, first in Bavaria, …

Otloh of St Emmeram (also Othlo) (c. 1010 - c. 1072) was a Benedictine monk of St Emmeram's in Regensburg, known as a scholar and educator.

Anton Praetorius (Lippstadt 1560 - 6 December 1613 near Heidelberg in Laudenbach (Rhein-Neckar)/Bergstrasse in Germany), Protestant pastor and fighter against the persecution of witches (witchhunts, witchcraft trials) and against torture.

Caspar Aquila (August 7, 1488 - November 12, 1560, Saalfeld), also Kaspar Aquila, Caspari Aquilae, real name Johann Kaspar Adler was a German reformer, who was born at Augsburg. Educated at Augsburg and at Ulm (1502), in Italy (he met Erasmus in Rome), at Bern (1508), studied theology in Leipzig (1510) and Wittenberg (1513). According to his son, he entered the ministry in August 1514, at Bern.

Carl Sylvius Völkner was a German-born Protestant missionary in New Zealand. He was born in Kassel, Hesse, Germany, probably in 1819. Völkner was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand in August 1849. In 1852 he offered his services to the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He married Emma Lanfear, sister of a CMS missionary. Völkner took charge of the CMS mission station at Opotiki in August 1861.

Johannes Evangelista Gossner (14 September 1773 - 20 March 1858), German divine and philanthropist, was born at Hausen near Augsburg. He was educated at the University of Dillingen. Here like Martin Boos and others he came under the spell of the Evangelical movement promoted by Johann Michael Sailer, the professor of pastoral theology. After taking priests' orders, Gossner held livings at Dirlewang (1804-1811) and Munich (1811-1817), …

Williram (d. January 3, 1085) was a German scholar of Christian scripture from near Worms. He is best known for having translated and paraphrased the Song of Songs. Williram studied under Lanfranc and also at the University of Paris. He served as scholastic of the chathedral chapter of Bamberg, before retiring to a monastery in Fulda. Soon after, Henry III summoned him to the famous Benedictine abbey of Ebersberg, …

Johann Eberlin von Günzburg was a German theologian who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets.

Albert of Stade was a 13th century chronicler, born before the end of the 12th century. Albert became the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Stade, near Hamburg, in 1232. When in 1236 he failed to change the rule in his abbey from the Benedictine to that of the Cistercians he resigned his position, and joined the Franciscans in 1240. That same year, he began writing his chronicle, which begins at Creation and end in 1256.

The Blessed Gamelbert was a Catholic priest, who worked in the 8th century in the area of the present Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany. Gamelbert was of noble descent and was lord of Michaelsbuch. In the mid-8th century he acquired from Duke Tassilo III a piece of woodland on the opposite bank of the Danube between Mariaposching and Deggendorf, for which he had pay a tax known as the "Medema".

Jacob of Juterbogk, was a German monk and theologian. Benedict Stolzenhagen, known in religion as Jacob, was born at Jüterbog in Brandenburg of poor peasant stock. He became a Cistercian at the monastery of Paradiz in Poland, and was, sent by the abbot to the university of Kraków, where he became master in philosophy and doctor of theology. He returned to his monastery, of which he became abbot.

Johann Adolf Köster (c.1550 - 1630), was a pastor, teacher and historian in Büsum, Germany. He is better known by his Latin name Neocorus, under which he chronicled the medieval history of Dithmarschen. The Neocorus School in Büsum was named in his honor in 1995. In addition to documenting historic events, Neocorus also wrote accounts of daily life in Dithmarschen during the late 16th century and collected local lore and anecdotes.

Konrad of Lichtenau (d. 1240) was a medieval German chronicler from Swabia. Konrad was born to a noble Swabian family and spent time at court, before he becoming a Premonstratensian in Rome at the court of Innocent III. In 1226, he became Abbot of the Ursperg Monastery in Bavaria, where he died.

Jeremias Drexel S.J. (also known as Drechsel or Drexelius) (August 15 1581-19 April 1638) was a Jesuit writer of devotional literature and a professor of the humanities and rhetoric. He served for 23 years as court preacher in Munich to Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and his wife Elizabeth of Lorraine. Jeremias Drexel was born in Augsburg and was raised as Lutheran.

Franz Scholz priest and professor of theology, was born in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. He studied at Breslau's Catholic St.-Matthias-Gymnasium, then Caritas Science at Freiburg in Breisgau. He studied the Polish language at Kraków and Lublin. In 1934 he became a priest and took up a position as chaplain at Cross Church in Wrocław. In this office Schulz attended to the spiritual needs of Polish seasonal workers in the Silesian capital city.

Venerable Philipp Jenigen was a German priest from Eichstätt, Bavaria, who served as a popular missionary at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg. Jeningen entered the Society of Jesus on January 19, 1663, and became a successful popular missionary. He served at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg, near Ellwangen in Swabia, which had been made famous by the Jesuits, and to which Jeningen, through the renown of his holiness, drew pilgrims from near and far.

Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (January 10, 1800 - June 21, 1873), was a German Protestant divine, born at Gotha. He studied theology at Jena, and eventually became (1841) pastor, member of the consistory, and superintendent at Hanover. He is chiefly noted for his valuable "Kritischexegetischer Kominentar zum Neuen Testament" (16 vols.), which began to appear in 1832, was completed in 1859 with the assistance of J. E. Huther, …

Magnoald Ziegelbauer was a Benedictine monk and an ecclesiastical historian.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Junior was a German theologian and public health advocate. His father was Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior (6 March 1831, Tecklenburg – 2 April 1910, Bethel), founder of the Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel charitable foundations.

Johann Martin Schleyer, German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük. His official name was "Martin Schleyer"; he added the name "Johann" (in honor of his godfather) unofficially. He was born in Oberlauda (Baden). According to his own report, the idea of an international language arose out of a conversation he had with one of his parishioners, …

Julian of Speyer (d. c. 1250), also known as Julian of Spires and Latinized Julianus Teutonicus, was a German Franciscan composer, poet, and historian of the thirteenth century. Born in Speyer, Julian studied at the University of Paris and was the musical director for the royal chapel during the reigns of Philip Augustus and Louis VIII of France. Eventually, he left to become a member of the newly founded Order of St Francis, …

Jordanus of Giano (1195-after 1262) was an Italian Minorite from Giano in the Valley of Spoleto. Jordanus joined the Franciscans around 1220. A few years later he was sent to Germany with a group under Caesarius of Speyer, the first Franciscan provincial of Germany. He was ordained in 1223, and became the guardian at Mainz and the custos of the Franciscan houses in Thuringia in 1225. In 1230 and again in 1238, he returned to Italy on business relating to his order.

Caspar Schatzgeyer (c. 1464 - 1527) was a foremost opponent of the Protestant Reformer in Germany.

Roland Weißelberg was a retired Lutheran Vikar who on October 31 2006 set himself on fire in a German monastery of the town Erfurt as a protest against the spread of Islam and the Protestant Church’s inability or unwillingness to contain it. Angered and distressed by the perceived threat of Islam to his country, the German vicar committed suicide by setting himself alight on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 in protest.

Ferdinand Janner (Feb. 4, 1836 - Nov. 1, 1895) was a German theologian from Hirschau in the Upper Palatinate.

Franz Xaver Haberl (Oberellenbach, Lower Bavaria, 12 April 1840 - Ratisbon, 5 September 1910) was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske. He made his classical and theological studies at Passau, Bavaria, where he was ordained priest, 12 August, 1862. Showing decided aptitude for music, be was given every opportunity for study of the art, and was entrusted with the direction of music in the seminary.

Matthias Tanner was born at Pilsen in Bohemia on February 28 1630. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1646. The greatest part of his life was spent at Prague, where he taught humanities, philosophy, theology, and scripture, was made rector of the imperial university, and guided for six years the Bohemian province of his order. Not only did Tanner burn to imitate the apostles and martyrs of the society, but, to awaken in his brethren a like desire, …