Hans von dohnanyi bonhoeffer biography
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Hans von Dohnanyi
German jurist and resistance fighter (1902–1945)
Hans von Dohnanyi (German:[hansfɔndoːˈna.niː]]ⓘ; originally Johann von DohnányiHungarian:[ˈdohnaːɲi]; 1 January 1902 – 8 or 9 April 1945) was a Germanjurist. He used his position in the Abwehr to help Jews escape Germany, worked with German resistance against the Nazi régime, and after the failed 20 July Plot, he was accused of being the "spiritual leader" of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, and executed by the SS in 1945.
Early life
[edit]Hans von Dohnanyi was born to the HungariancomposerErnő Dohnányi and his wife, pianist Elisabeth Kunwald.[1] After his parents divorced, he grew up in Berlin. He went to the GrunewaldGymnasium there, becoming friends with Dietrich and Klaus Bonhoeffer. From 1920 to 1924, he studied law in Berlin.[1] In 1925, he received a doctorate in law with a dissertation on "The International Lease Treaty and Czechoslovakia's Claim
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Primary Sources
(1) Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler's Death (1997)
Around September 20, the innermost circle of conspirators met in Oster's apartment for a sista conclave: Witzleben, Gisevius, Dohnanyi, and probably Goerdeler, as well as Captain Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz and Lieutenant Commander Franz Maria Liedig. Heinz and Liedig had recently been asked to assemble a special task force, whose precise uppdrag the assembled group now determined. When Halder issued the meddelande for the coup, the task force, under Witzleben's command, was to overpower the sentries at the main ingång to the Reich Chancellery at 78 Wilhelmstrasse, enter the building, neutralize any resistance, especially from Hitler's bodyguards, and enter Hitler's quarters.
(2) Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, New York Review of Books (25th October, 2012)
In 1929 Dohnanyi entered the Reich Ministry of Justice as an aide to State sekreterare Curt Jöel, a strict conserva
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Bonhoeffer family
German family
The Bonhoeffer family is a German family that, though originating in the city of Nijmegen, has been documented in the city of Schwäbisch Hall from 1513 onwards. Among the family's most notable members are Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Klaus Bonhoeffer, both executed in the last days of World War II by Adolf Hitler's government for their different resistance activities against the Nazi régime.
History
[edit]Karl Bonhoeffer was born on 31 March 1868 in Neresheim, Württemberg, the son of Friedrich von Bonhoeffer (1828–1907), presiding judge in Ulm, and his wife Julie, née Tafel (1842–1936). He studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Munich; in 1892 he obtained his doctorate supervised by Paul Grützner. After working as a physician for several years, he became director of the Breslau psychiatric hospital and also habilitated at the Breslau University, under Carl Wernicke, in 1897.
In 1898, Bonhoeffer married Paula von Hase (1