Alfred Dilger
Alfred Dilger (born October 20, 1897 in Tellicherry , India; † 1975 ) was a German Protestant clergyman. During the Second World War , as a member of the professing church, he was the organizer of a network to give refuge to persecuted Jews.
Life
During the First World War he was a soldier and was badly wounded. One of his legs had to be amputated.
From 1924 Dilger was pastor of the Evangelical Society in Stuttgart . In 1932 he moved to the pastor's office in Nellingen auf den Fildern and in 1942 to Bad Cannstatt .
Dilger's parsonage was the meeting point for the “ Brother Council ” of the Confessing Church in Württemberg. This group had set itself the task of helping those persecuted by the National Socialist system. In response to a request from Berlin in 1943, the members decided to hide refugee Jews. Dilger was one of the central people in the network.
From 1947 on he was home inspector of the German branch of the Basel Mission . He retired in 1963.
Since 1991 Dilger and his wife Luise have been counted among the Righteous Among the Nations .
literature
- Kurt Galling (Hrsg.): The religion in past and present: Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. Tübingen 1957-1965.
- Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 95 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred Dilger on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dilger, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tellicherry , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |