Background
Niemoeller, Martin was born on January 14, 1892 in Lippstadt, Westphalia, Germany. Son of Heinrich and Paula (Mueller) Niemoeller.
Niemoeller, Martin was born on January 14, 1892 in Lippstadt, Westphalia, Germany. Son of Heinrich and Paula (Mueller) Niemoeller.
Student public schools, Lippstadt, 1898—1900. Student, Gymnasium, Elberfeld, 1900—1910. Student theology, University Muenster, 1920—1923.
Doctor of Divinity, University Göttingen, Germany. Doctor of Divinity, St. Louis University. Doctor of Divinity, University Halifax.
Doctor of Divinity, Bethany Biblical Seminary, Chicago. Doctor of Divinity, Budapest, Hungary. Doctor of Divinity, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Doctor of Divinity, University London (Ontario). Doctor of Divinity, Inter-American University Puerto Rico. Doctor of Letters, University New Delhi, India.
Served in, German Imperial Navy, 1910-1920; submarine service, German Imperial Navy, 1916-1918; farm laborer, 1919; director, Home Mission for Province Westphalen, 1923-1931; pastor, Lutheran Parish, Berlin-Dahlem, 1931-1945; founder, Pastors Emergency League to Resist Hitlerism, 1933; confined in concentration camps of Sachenhausen and Dachau as Hitler's personal prisoner, 1937-1945; vice president, Evangelical Church in Germany, 1945-1949; president office foreign affairs, Evangelical Church in Germany, 1945-1956; president of church in Hesse and Nassau, 1947-1964. Addressed biennial meeting Federal Council Churches of Christ, Seattle, Washington,1946.
Chairman Fellowship of Christian Churches in Germany, 1948-1961. Standing deputy executive committee World Council Churches, 1948-1961, president 1961-1968.
Married Else Bremer, April 20, 1919 (deceased August 1961). Children: Brigitte (Mistress Benno Johannesson), Hans Jochen (deceased), Heinz Hermann, Jan, Herta, Jutta (deceased), Martin.