Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was a German theologian, pastor, seminary teacher and resistance operative against the Nazis during World War II. Dietrich received his doctorate from Berlin University in 1927 and lectured in the theological faculty during the early thirties. He was ordained a Lutheran pastor in 1931 and served in two congregations. Bonhoeffer was also head of the Confessing Church’s seminary at Finkenwalde. Convicted of a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, he was executed by the Nazi SS in 1945, one month before the Germans surrendered. His most well-known works include The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, Ethics and Letters and Papers from Prison.