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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈbɔnhøːfɐ] ⓘ; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Karl Bonhoeffer (1868–1948) The Bonhoeffer family is a German family that, though originating in the city of Nijmegen , has been documented in the city of Schwäbisch Hall from 1513 onwards. Among the family's most notable members are Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Klaus Bonhoeffer , both executed in the last days of World War II by Adolf Hitler 's ...
Fifteen years after her death, the complete correspondence with Bonhoeffer was published by her elder sister, Ruth-Alice von Bismarck (wife of Klaus von Bismarck) as Brautbriefe Zelle 92 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Maria von Wedemeyer 1943-1945. This book has subsequently been translated into English, French, Japanese and other languages.
Bonhoeffer joined other relatives and officers within the German intelligence service who were secretly conspiring to overthrow Hitler and end the war. Bonhoeffer knew of and approved plans to assassinate Hitler, though he wasn’t an active participant. The plot failed. Bonhoeffer was imprisoned in 1943 for resistance work and executed by ...
1945 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by hanging. 1945 – Gerhard Gentzen was detained in a prison camp by the Russian forces, where he died of malnutrition. 1945 – Ernst Bergmann committed suicide after the Allied forces captured Leipzig.
The Cost of Discipleship (German: Nachfolge [ˈnaːxˌfɔlɡə], lit. ' succession ' or ' following ') is a 1937 book by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, considered to be a classic of Christian thought.
A limited number of Protestants, such as Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Wilhelm Busch, [15] [16] objected to the Nazis on moral and theological principles; they could not reconcile the Nazi state's claim to total control over the person with the ultimate sovereignty that, in Christian orthodoxy, must belong only to God. [17]
The operation was devised by Abwehr members Hans von Dohnanyi and Wilhelm Canaris, and carried out with the support of Dohnanyi's brother-in-law Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who arranged visas and sponsors for the Jews. [1] Originally, the plan included only seven Jews, but this was later increased to fourteen. [2]