Career
Active in the Kreisau Circle German Resistance group, he was arrested in connection with the 1944 July Plot to overthrow Hitler, but survived his imprisonment. During World War I, he was drafted into the army and fought at Verdun. He was ordained as a priest in 1925.
He appointed Alfred Delp to be his representative at the resistance meetings
After the failed coup against Hitler, he went into hiding in a farm. He was found, arrested, tortured and brought to the Dachau concentration camp.
Sent to interrogation to Berlin, he was freed in light of the advancing Red Army of the Soviet Union. After the war until his death, he was heading the Bavarian Caritas from 1947-1961.