Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lutheran pastor and theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who opposed the Nazi regime. He wrote The Cost of Discipleship, published in 1937.
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German Born 1906 in Wrocław, Poland Died 1945
About Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906 and studied in Berlin and New York City. He became a Lutheran pastor and theologian, and was a founding member of the Confessing Church. He wrote about the place of Christianity in the secular world. The Cost of Discipleship, which appeared in 1937, is regarded as a modern classic. Bonhoeffer left America to go back to Germany and keep speaking out against the Nazis. He was arrested in April 1943 and spent a year and a half in Tegel Prison. He was hanged on 9 April 1945, as the Nazi regime was collapsing.