Dietrich Bonhoeffer: pastor, theologian, martyr

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: pastor, theologian, martyr

On April 9 we remember Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged at Flossenbürg Prison on this date. Hitler ordered his execution after his imprisonment for his association with the failed assassination attempt of Hitler on July 20, 1944. He was a leader in the Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism, and his writing on Christianity’s role in the secular world became widely influential...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer also inspires 80 years after his death. A reading in Hamburg, accompanied by music and discussion, reminds in a special way of the theologian and resistance fighter.