Birth: 1906-02-04
, Breslávia
Death: 1945-04-09
, Campo de concentração de Flossenbürg
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian, pastor, and anti-Nazi activist. He became a prominent figure in the Confessing Church, a resistance movement against Nazi influence on the German Protestant church. Bonhoeffer is remembered for his theology of the Christian life and his active opposition to Hitler's regime.