Dietrich bonhoeffer brief biography sample

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

In short -A German Lutheran theologian who became actively involved in the German Resistance  movement against Hitler during the Second World War and who was hanged for high  treason during the closing months of that war.

Bonhoeffer was born into an affluent and privileged upper middle-class family in Breslau on 4 February 1906.

His father Karl was a successful neurologist who became Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Berlin,   moving the family there in 1912 to take up his new post. Cultured and sophisticated, the Bonhoeffer family was not particularly religious in terms of their diligent attendance to Christian worship.

Despite this, Bonhoeffer’s decide to pursue a religious career though with his elder brother’s disapproval

Bonhoeffer, however, was not to be dissuaded, and at the age of 17 he went to Tübingen to begin his study of theology.

In 1924 he returned to Berlin to study under