Ferdinand Schlingensiepen

Ferdinand Schlingensiepen served as head of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie and organized the first international Bonhoeffer Congress in 1972. He also encouraged the establishment of the Bonhoeffer Society. His publications include works on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Heinrich Heine, and Theodor Fontane. The available sources give conflicting birth years, so no date is provided here.