Category

Protestants in the German Resistance

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German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968)

Martin Niemöller

German theologian (1892–1984)

Wilhelm Canaris

German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)

Rudolf Bultmann

German theologian (1884–1976)

Friedrich Kellner

German Justice inspector (1885-1970)

German general (1880–1944)

Erwin von Witzleben

German field marshal (1881–1944)

German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939 (1903–1945)

German general (1886–1944)

German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany (1918–1943)

Kurt Schumacher

German politician (1895-1952)

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

German politician and member of the 20 July plot (1884-1945)

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

German resistance fighter (1907–1945)

Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg

German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

German general (1878–1943)

Alexander von Falkenhausen

German general (1878-1966)

SS officer; aid to Nazi resistance (1905–1945)

Fabian von Schlabrendorff

German jurist, soldier, and member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler (1907-1980)

Prince Oskar of Prussia

Prussian prince (1888-1958)

Ulrich von Hassell

German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism (1881–1944)

Peter Yorck von Wartenburg

German resistance fighter (1904-1944)

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin

German resistance member (1922–2013)

Hellmuth Stieff

German general and opponent to nazism (1901-1944)

Adam von Trott zu Solz

German noble and diplomat (1909-1944)

Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst

German politician (1919–1993)

Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff

German general (1905–1980)

Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg

German noble (1913-2006)

Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld

German resistance member (1902-1944)

Gerhard von Rad

German theologian (1901-1971)

Helmuth Groscurth

German officer (1898-1943)

Prussian pastor (1897-1939)

Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg

German politician (1902-1944)

Württembergian politician and German opponent of Nazism (1891-1973)

Hans Bernd von Haeften

German jurist and resistance fighter against Nazism (1905–1944)

Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

German resistance member (1890-1945)

German protestant pastor and writer (1897-1966)

Friedrich von Rabenau

German general (1884–1945)

German resistance fighter (1893–1945)

Lothar Kreyssig

German judge, founder of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (1898–1986)

Heinrich Grüber

German politician and theologian (1891-1975)

Werner Otto von Hentig

German diplomatist (1886-1984)

Marion Yorck von Wartenburg

German resistance fighter and jurist (1904–2007)

Friedrich Weißler

German resistance member (1891–1937)

Karl Friedrich Stellbrink

German Lutheran pastor and Lübeck martyr

Eberhard von Breitenbuch

German Army officer (1910–1980)

German resistance member (1906–1993)

Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten

German general (1882–1944)

German theologian (1883-1958)

German theologian (1874–1939)

German theologian (1882-1970)

Eberhard Bethge

German protestant theologian, pastor and biographer of D. Bonhoeffer (1909–2000)

German anti-Nazi (1921-2012)

Kurt von Plettenberg

German forester, cavalry officer and member of the German Resistance (Widerstand) against Hitler (1891-1945)

German Lutheran bishop (1899-1977)

German Evangelical theologian (1898-1968)

Helene Gotthold

German Jehovah's Witness and resistance fighter (1896-1944)