Dorothee Soelle (left). Credit: By van Smirren/Anefo (Nationaal Archief). CC BY-SA 3.0 nl via Wikimedia Commons.
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Gestapo on April 9 1945 because of his opposition to Nazi ideology, a voice was stilled that would surely have made a profound contribution to post-World War II theology in a world that was literally dripping with blood. Like Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Soelle (or Sölle) was a German Protestant Christian who dedicated her life to the integration of politics with theology. She was born in Cologne in 1929 and died at a congress in Göppingen 74 years later.
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