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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi (1906–1945)
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The Reverend Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
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Bonhoeffer in his garden in Berlin | |
Born | (1906-02-04)4 February 1906 Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany |
Died | 9 April 1945(1945-04-09) (aged 39) Flossenbürg, Bavaria, Germany |
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Education | Staatsexamen (Tübingen), Doctor of Theology (Berlin), Privatdozent (Berlin) |
Alma mater | University of Tübingen University of Berlin |
Parents | |
Relatives | Klaus Bonhoeffer (brother) Hans von Dohnanyi (brother-in-law) |
Religion | Lutheranism |
Church | Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (1906–1933) Confessing Church (1933–1945) |
Congregations served | Zion's Church congregation, Berlin German-speaking congregations of St. Paul's and Sydenham, London |
Offices held |