Walter Dirks was a political commentator, theologian, journalist, and noted member of the "Catholic Left." He was a founder of the Bensberger Kreis and was co-editor of the Frankfurter Hefte

Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte

Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte is a German monthly political magazine . As its name implies it resulted from the merger in 1985 of two magazines Neue Gesellschaft and Frankfurter Hefte....

. He leaned toward Christian socialism and opposed nuclear weapons. He also did much work with Eugen Kogon

Eugen Kogon

Eugen Kogon was a historian and a survivor of the Holocaust. A well-known Christian opponent of the Nazi Party, he was arrested more than once and spent six years at Buchenwald concentration camp. Kogon was known in Germany as a journalist, sociologist, political scientist, author and politician...

. A prize in Germany is named for him. Notable winners include Rita Süssmuth

Rita Süssmuth

Rita Süssmuth is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union .From 1985 to 1988, Süssmuth was Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth under Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1987 to 2002...

, Rupert Neudeck

Rupert Neudeck

Rupert Neudeck is a German journalist and humanitarian.He lived in Danzig until 1945 when Germans either fled from the advancing Soviets, or were expelled in the Expulsion of Germans from Poland after World War II...

, and Wolfgang Thierse

Wolfgang Thierse

Wolfgang Thierse is a German politician .- Early years in the GDR :Thierse was born in Breslau . He is a Roman Catholic and grew up in East Germany. After his A-levels he first worked as a typesetter in Weimar...

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