Walter Dirks

Who was Walter Dirks?

Walter Dirks was a German political commentator, theologian, and journalist.

He co-founded the Bensberger Kreis, and was co-editor of the Frankfurter Hefte. He opposed National Socialism, and in Die Arbeit "described the Catholic reaction to Nazism as 'open warfare'".

Dirks was a supporter of socialism and an opponent of nuclear weapons. With other writers such as Eugen Kogon in the Frankfurter Hefte, he articulated the opposition to rearmament.