Helmut_Gollwitzer Helmut Gollwitzer (December 29, 1908, Pappenheim, Bavaria – October 17, 1993, Berlin) was a Protestant (Lutheran) theologian and author.Born in Bavaria, Gollwitzer studied Protestant theology in Munich, Erlangen, Jena and Bonn (1928-1932); he later completed a doctorate under Karl Barth in Basel (1937), writing on the understanding of the eucharist in Martin Luther and John Calvin.During the period of the Nazi-regime in Germany, Gollwitzer was a well-known member of the Confessing Church movement which resisted the regimes' attempt to control the churches.