![]() ![]() ![]() Though he was initially expected to follow his father into the field of psychology, he decided to become a minister at a very young age. His father, Karl Bonhoeffer, was a prominent German psychiatrist in Berlin his mother, Paula Bonhoeffer, home-schooled the children. His brother Walter was killed during World War I. He was the sixth of eight children, and he had a twin sister named Sabine. He was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually hanged following the failure of the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt.īonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) into a middle- to upper-class professional family. ![]() Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906- April 9, 1945) was a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against Nazism.īonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and theologian, took part in the plots being planned by members of the Abwehr (Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Hitler. ![]()
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