Walter Bonhoeffer, the second born of the Bonhoeffer family, was killed in action during World War I when Bonhoeffer and his twin Sabine were 12 years old.
He also learned how to play the piano at age 8, and composed the songs performed at the Philharmonic at age 11. Bonhoeffer's family dynamic and his parents' values enabled him to receive a high level of education and encouraged his curiosity, which impacted his ability to lead others around him, specifically in the church setting. His father was Karl Bonhoeffer, a psychiatrist and neurologist, noted for his criticism of Sigmund Freud and his mother Paula Bonhoeffer was a teacher and the granddaughter of Protestant theologian Karl von Hase and painter Stanislaus von Kalckreuth. 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. He was hanged on 9 April 1945 during the collapse of the Nazi regime.Įarly life Childhood and family īonhoeffer was born on 4 February 1906 in Breslau, then Germany (now Poland), into a large family. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.īonhoeffer was accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler and was tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office). He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel Prison for one-and-a-half years. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Adolf Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( German: ( listen) 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti- Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
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