Father Alfred Delp was an influential member of the Kreisau Circle - one of the German Resistance groups operating inside Nazi Germany.
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Alfred Delp, SJ
Born
(1907-09-15)15 September 1907
Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden
Died
2 February 1945(1945-02-02) (aged 37)
Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany
Occupation
Catholic priest
Movement
Kreisau Circle
Alfred Friedrich DelpSJ (German:[ˈal.fʁeːtˈdɛlp]ⓘ, 15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism. Falsely implicated in the failed 1944 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler, Delp was arrested and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1945.
Alfred Friedrich Delp SJ (German: [ˈal.fʁeːt ˈdɛlp] , 15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance...
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Jesuits Augustin Rösch, AlfredDelp and Lothar König). Bishop von Preysing also had contact with the group. According to Gill, "Delp's role was to sound out...
prominent in the small German Resistance, including the influential martyr AlfredDelp of the Kreisau Circle. The German Jesuit Robert Leiber acted as intermediary...
of Hildegard," in Hildegard von Bingen in ihrem historischen Umfeld, ed. Alfred Haverkamp (Mainz: Trierer Historische Forschungen, 2000), pp. 375–418; and...
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the teachings of National Socialism". Some priests—such as the Jesuits AlfredDelp and Augustin Rösch and the Lutheran preacher Dietrich Bonhoeffer—were...
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Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
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Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany Mit brennender Sorge AlfredDelp Alois Grimm Rupert Mayer Bernhard Lichtenberg Max Josef Metzger Karl...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Daniélou Hans Urs von Balthasar Marcel Lefebvre Frederick Copleston AlfredDelp Edward Schillebeeckx Thomas Merton René Girard Hans Küng Johann Baptist...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
(Hanging) 1944 Gustav Dahrendorf Member of the Reichstag Survived 1954 AlfredDelp Priest Executed (Hanging) 1945 Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten General...
Daniélou Hans Urs von Balthasar Marcel Lefebvre Frederick Copleston AlfredDelp Edward Schillebeeckx Thomas Merton René Girard Hans Küng Johann Baptist...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Daniélou Hans Urs von Balthasar Marcel Lefebvre Frederick Copleston AlfredDelp Edward Schillebeeckx Thomas Merton René Girard Hans Küng Johann Baptist...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...
Balazar Faustina Kowalska Sister Lúcia of Fátima Edgar Cayce Simone Weil AlfredDelp Thomas Merton Charles de Foucauld Edvige Carboni Elena Aiello Contemporary...