50th anniversary of death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1995 - 100 Pfennig

The Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, born on 4 February 1906 in Breslau, son of the neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer, grew up in the professor quarter Berlin-Grunewald. In Berlin he studied theology and graduated at the age of 22 from his dissertation on the subject of church and at the age of 24 the habilitation. After a scholarship year in New York, he became a parish priest in 1931 and taught theology in Berlin. Together with Niemöller Bonhoeffer has participated in building an opposition to the Nazification of theology and the church and published an article on the fight against anti-Semitism in the churches. At the end of 1933, he took over a foreign ministry in London and made ecumenical connections for the Confessing Church and later for the conspiracy. In 1935, the Confessing Church called him back. In 1939 he accepted an invitation to teach in the US and considered the possibility of emigration. However, he returned before the outbreak of war to participate in the conspiracy that Hans von Dohnanyi had been preparing since 1938. Until his arrest in the spring of 1943, he undertook conspiratorial trips abroad. The cell developed into the famous correspondence "Resistance and Surrender," which came to an end after the failed coup of July 20, 1944. On April 9, 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in the concentration camp Flossenbürg. With the printed estate he is today considered a significant bearer of hope of Christians.