Bonhoeffer (family of scholars)

The Bonhoeffer (or Bonhöffer ) family came from Nijmegen and originally had the name van den Boenhoff ( from the Bohnenhof ). From 1513 she lived in Schwäbisch Hall . The descendants initially worked as goldsmiths, later also as doctors or pastors. The family provided 78 councilors, whose portraits are in the Michaelskirche, several family members held the mayor's office.

Well-known namesake

• Adolf Friedrich Bonhöffer (1859–1919), theologian, classical philologist, philosophy historian and librarian
• Gustav-Otto Bonhoeffer (* Aug. 22, 1864–1932), chemist “Paint factories vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. ”in Elberfeld
• Karl Bonhoeffer (1868–1948), psychiatrist, neurologist, medical expert, married to Paula von Hase . They had eight children:
  • Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957), chemist, married to Margarete (Grete) von Dohnanyi (1903–1992), sister of Hans von Dohnanyi
    • Karl Bonhoeffer (1931–2019)
    • Friedrich Bonhoeffer (* 1932), biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
      • Tobias Bonhoeffer (* 1960), Director at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology
    • Martin Bonhoeffer (1935–1989), social worker, reformer of home education
    • Katharina Bonhoeffer (1937-2016)
  • Walter Bonhoeffer (1899–1918), killed in World War I (shrapnel wound)
  • Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), lawyer and resistance fighter, married to Emilie Delbrück (1905–1991) (daughter of Hans Delbrück and sister of Max Delbrück and Justus Delbrück )
    • Thomas Bonhoeffer (* 1931), German Protestant theologian
    • Cornelie (called Cornelchen) Bonhoeffer (* 1934)
    • Walter Bonhoeffer (* 1938)
  • Ursula Bonhoeffer (1902–1983), married to Rüdiger Schleicher (1895–1945)
    • Hans-Walter (1924–2012)
    • Renate (1925–2019), married to Eberhard Bethge
    • Dorothee (* 1928), married to Karl Dietrich Bracher
    • Christine (called Christinchen or Tine) (1930–2017)
  • Christine Bonhoeffer (1903–1965), married to Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945)
    • Barbara (called Bärbel) (1926-2016)
    • Klaus (* 1928)
    • Christoph (* 1929)
      • Justus von Dohnányi (* 1960)
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian and resistance fighter, engaged to Maria von Wedemeyer
  • Sabine Bonhoeffer (1906–1999), married to Gerhard Leibholz (1901–1982)
    • Marianne Leibholz (1927–2017)
    • Christiane Leibholz (1930 - April 17, 2008)
  • Susanne Bonhoeffer (1909–1991), married to Walter Dreß (1904–1979)
    • Michael (also: Michel) (1935–1975)
    • Andreas Dress (mathematician) (* 1938)

literature

• Renate Bethge: Bonhoeffer's family and their significance for his theology ( Memento of January 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 607 kB); Berlin: Memorial Dt. Resistance, 1987
• Hans Christoph von Hase: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his family ; Lecture on the IX. Haseschen family day on September 19, 1981 on the Gleitberg near Gießen. Selbstverlag, Kassel, 1981. Short version in: Bonhoeffer-Rundbrief, Mitteilungen der Internationale Bonhoeffer-Gesellschaft, No. 77, 2005, pp. 19-27.
• Sabine Leibholz-Bonhoeffer: Christmas in the Bonhoeffer house . Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh, 2005 ¹³ , ISBN 3-579-07118-1
• Sabine Leibholz-Bonhoeffer: Past, experienced, overcome. Fate of the Bonhoeffer family . Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh, 2005 ¹⁰ , ISBN 978-3-579-07122-0
• Elke Endraß: Bonhoeffer and his judges. A process and its aftermath . Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006; ISBN 3-7831-2764-5

Web links

Commons : Bonhoeffer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files