Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, antiNazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianitys role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic.
Bonhoeffer was born onFebruary 1906 in Breslau , into a large family. In addition to his other siblings, Dietrich had a twin sister, Sabine Bonhoeffer Leibholz he and Sabine were the sixth and seventh children out of eight. His father was psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer. His mother Paula Bonhoeffer, ne von Hase, was a teacher and the granddaughter of Protestant theologian Karl von Hase and painter Stanislaus Kalckreuth. His oldest brother Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer became a chemist, and, along with Paul Harteck, discovered the spin isomers of hydrogen in 1929. Walter Bonhoeffer, the second born of the Bonhoeffer family, was killed in action during World War I, when the twins were 12. The third Bonhoeffer child, Klaus, was involved in theJuly plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, along with Dietrich he, too, was executed by the Nazis. Both of Bonhoeffers older sisters, Ursula Bonhoeffer Schleicher and Christel Bonhoeffer von Dohnanyi, married men who were eventually execu
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