caption congregations death_date death_place writings birth_place image_size title offices_held birth_date pronunciation image article_title education name church
bonhoeffer in 1939 zion st. paul 's and sydenham , london 's church congregation , berlin german-speaking congregations of 09 april 1945 flossenbürg concentration camp , nazi germany author -rrb- of several books and articles -lrb- see below breslau , silesia province , prussia , german empire 200px ordained pastor associate 1931 -- 36 -rrb- student pastor at technical college , lecturer berlin -lrb- 1931 -- 33 -rrb- lecturer of confessing church at candidates of pastorate in finkenwalde -lrb- 1935 -- 37 -rrb- frederick william university of berlin -lrb- 04 february 1906 ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ lang bundesarchiv bild 146-1987-074-16 , dietrich bonhoeffer.jpg dietrich bonhoeffer
 staatsexamen berlin -rrb- , privatdozent -lrb- berlin -rrb- -lrb- tübingen -rrb- , doctor of theology -lrb- dietrich bonhoeffer evangelical church of the old-prussian union confessing church
dietrich bonhoeffer

dietrich bonhoeffer -lrb- ; 4 february 1906 -- 9 april 1945 -rrb- was a german lutheran pastor , theologian , anti-nazi dissident , and key founding member of the confessing church .
his writings on christianity 's role in the secular world have become widely influential , and his book `` the cost of discipleship '' became a modern classic .
apart from his theological writings , bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the nazi dictatorship , including vocal opposition to hitler 's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the jews .
he was arrested in april 1943 by the gestapo and imprisoned at tegel prison for one and a half years .
later he was transferred to a nazi concentration camp .
after being allegedly associated with the plot to assassinate adolf hitler , he was briefly tried , along with other accused plotters , including former members of the `` abwehr '' -lrb- the german military intelligence office -rrb- , and then executed by hanging on 9 april 1945 as the nazi regime collapsed , just two weeks before allied forces liberated the camp and three weeks before hitler 's suicide .
