Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#;s Lost Love
By Wendy Murray
Yesterday, February 4, what would have been Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s birthday. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer was executed by hanging, age 39, in a Nazi concentration camp in He and small-but-fierce contingent of devoted Protestants actively resisted the Nazi encroachment in both church and state. They founded the Confessing Church movement to mount active resistance to government-sponsored efforts to nazify German Protestantism. His writings have influenced subsequent generations who struggle with the role of Christian devotion in a hostile culture. The Cost of Discipleship, a modern classic, is widely known for Bonhoeffer’s haunting statement: “When Christ calls a man he bids him to come and die.”
He was engaged in January , at age 36, to Maria von Wedemeyer only to be arrested by the Gestapo three months later in consequence of his involvement in plans to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer was executed (April ) while imprisoned at Flossenbürg concentration camp only weeks before Hitler killed himself and the German surrender.
During the two short of years of his engagement to von Wedemeyer (and wha
While researching Dietrich Bonhoeffer and women, I was tantalized by a line from Maria&#;s sister Ruth-Alice von Bismarck in Love Letters from Cell The Correspondence between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer: : &#;In &#; She [Maria] also gave an interview about her relationship with Bonhoeffer for a television documentary.&#; ()
An interview? Why had I not heard of this? What could be more compelling than to see and hear a historical figure in whose letters I had spent so much time? I went searching for the interview, but came up empty-handed: and television were too vague as parameters. I even spoke on the phone to a kind person at Union Theological Seminary, who suggested I check with PBS.
I eventually discovered the interview in Malcolm Muggeridge&#;s series A Third Testament, which &#;explores the spiritual awakening of six renowned thinkers,&#; ending with Bonhoeffer. Suffice it to say that I immediately ordered the DVD.
| Maria von Wedemeyer with Malcolm Muggeridge being interviewed in her woodsy New England home: intelligent, giving, self-possessed and beautiful at |
What a find it was. The interview confirms reports of Maria as rem
Educational Resources
- Volumes of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
- The Great Reader -
- Selected Writings of Mahatama Gandhi-Donald Duncan
- Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi-Raghavan Iyer
- Mahatma Gandhi(biography) -
- Life of Mahatma Gandhi - Louis Fischer
- Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World- Louis Fischer
- :An Indian Patriot In South Africa
- Mahatma : Life of mahatma Gandhi- kar ( 8 volumes )
- Mahatma Gandhi - Pyarelal ( 10 volumes)
- Essential Gandhi : An Anthology of his Writings on his Life, work and Ideas – Editor, Louis Fischer.
- Gandhi in South Africa, to - and Gopalkrishna Gandhi
- Epigrams from Gandhiji - Tikekar
- Mind Of Mahatma-
- Day-to-Day With Gandhi (Dairy Of Mahadev Desai ) - ( 10 volumes)
- Gandhian Economics – Rashmi Sharma
- Gandhi's Passion – The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi- Stanely Wolpert
- Gandhi's ways: A handbook of Conflict Resolution-Mark Juergensmeyer
- In Search Of Gandhi –
- Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts – Anand Hingorani
- Mahatma Gandhi: The Beloved Patient – Dr. Dinshaw Mehta
- Gandhi Pictorical Album- Printed and Published by Publications Division
- Essays in Gandhian Economics – and Mark Lutz
- Life and Death of Mahatma Gan
Wedemeyer, Maria von (c. –)
German-born mathematician who was the fiancée of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Name variations: Maria von Wedemeyer-Weller. Born in Germany around ; died of cancer on November 16, , in Boston, Massachusetts; studied math at the University of Göttingen in Germany; Bryn Mawr, M.A., ; married Paul Schniewind, in (divorced c. ); married Barton Weller, in (divorced ); children: (first marriage) Christopher; Paul; (stepdaughter) Sue M. Ryan.
Born around , the daughter of German aristocrats, Maria von Wedemeyer was in her early teens when she first met German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, while attending confirmation classes he was giving. By the time they met again during World War II, Wedemeyer's father and brother had died fighting on the Russian front, and Bonhoeffer was a confirmed opponent of the Third Reich, forbidden by the Nazis from speaking in public and secretly using his job in German military intelligence to help the resistance. A struggle was being fought within the German Evangelical Church, and Bonhoeffer was a strong supporter of the "Confessing Church," the small faction that confessed to being led only by Jesus Christ, not by Adolf Hitler. By
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