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Bookmark or Share- Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he sympathized with many Nazi ideas and supported radically right-wing political movements. But after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemöller became an outspoken critic of Hitler’s interference in the Protestant Church.
- Martin Niemöller | German Theologian, Pastor & WWII ResisterMartin Niemöller was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and pastor, founder of the Confessing Church and a president of the World Council of Churches. The son of a pastor, Niemöller was a naval officer and commander of a German U-boat in World War I before beginning theological studies at.
- Martin Niemöller summary | BritannicaMartin Niemöller, (born Jan. 14, 1892, Lippstadt, Ger.—died March 6, 1984, Wiesbaden, W.Ger.), German theologian. A war hero as a submarine commander in World War I, he became a minister in 1924. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he protested their interference in church affairs and helped combat discrimination against Christians of ...
- The man behind the legend: Martin Niemöller, Hitler’s Personal Prisoner ...By Benjamin Ziemann. November 23rd 2023. Martin Niemöller, Lutheran pastor in the Dahlem parish at the outskirts of Berlin, stood at the centre of the struggle over hegemony in the German Protestant Church during the Third Reich. As figurehead of the Confessing Church, established in May 1934, Niemöller fought with great energy against the ...
- First they came ... - Wikipedia) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the silence of German intellectuals and clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself—following the Nazis ' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after ...
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