Eberhard Bethge
Eberhard Bethge (August 28, 1909 – March 18, 2000) was a student of the theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bethge was born in Warschau, Landkreis Jerichow II, Province of Saxony, the Kingdom of Prussia, near Magdeburg, on August 29, 1909
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Eberhard Bethge (August 28, 1909 – March 18, 2000) was a student of the theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bethge was born in Warschau, Landkreis Jerichow II, Province of Saxony, the Kingdom of Prussia, near Magdeburg, on August 29, 1909. He attended several universities, as is customary for theology students in Germany, before attending the underground Finkenwalde Seminary in Pomerania where Bonhoeffer taught in the name of Germany's Confessing Church (part of the anti-Nazi resistance). Bethge became Bonhoeffer's close friend and confidant. With the help of pietist congregations within the old-Prussian Ecclesiastical Province of Pomerania, the seminary could be relocated twice after Nazi-imposed closures.
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