Alfred Delp

Alfred Delp

Born(1907-09-15)15 September 1907
Mannheim, German Empire
Died2 February 1945(1945-02-02) (aged 37)
Plötzensee Prison, Berlin

Alfred Friedrich Delp SJ (German: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈdɛlp] ; 15 September 1907 – 2 February 1945) was a German Jesuit religious 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.