Background
Alfred Delp was born in Mannheim on 15 September 1907.
Alfred Delp was born in Mannheim on 15 September 1907.
Entering the Jesuit order at the age of eighteen, Delp was ordained as a priest in 1937. Between 1937 and 1941 he collaborated on the journal Stimmen der Zeit. A year later he joined the German Resistance and was arrested at the end of July 1944, following the failure of the assassination attempt against Hitler. Tried by the People’s Court and subjected to the withering scorn of its President, Roland Freisler, Delp was sentenced to death and hanged in Berlin on 2 February 1945.