hans von donayi

Hans von Dohnányi was born to the Hungarian composer Ernő Dohnányi and his wife, the pianist Elisabeth Kunwald. He grew up mostly in berlin. He went to the Grunewald Gymnasium there, becoming friends with Dietrich and Klaus Bonhoeffer. From 1920 to 1924, he studied law. In 1925, he received a doctorate in law .After taking the first state exam in 1924, he married Christel Bonhoeffer sister of his school friends, in 1925. He and his wife had three children: Klaus, (mayor of Hamburg from 1981 to 1988), Christoph, (a musical conductor) and Barbara. Dohnanyi worked at the Hamburg Senate for a short time and in 1929, began a career at the Reich Ministry of Justice, working as a personal consultant with the title of prosecutor to several justice ministers. In 1934, the title was changed to Regierungsrat ("government adviser"). In 1932, he ranked below Erwin Bumke, the Imperial Court President, in which capacity he put together Prussia's lawsuit against the Empire. As an adviser to Franz Gürtner from 1934–38, Dohnányi became acquainted with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring. He had access to the justice ministry's most secret documents. Dohnányi began to seek out contacts with German resistance circles. He made records for himself of the régime's crimes, so that in the event of a collapse of the Third Reich, he would have evidence of their crimes. In 1938, once his critical view of Nazi racial politics became known, Martin Bormann had him transferred to the Reichsgericht in Leipzig as an adviser.[1]
Shortly before World War II, Hans Oster called Dohnányi into the Abwehr of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Led by Wilhelm Canaris, it quite quickly became a hub of resistance activity against Hitler.Dohnányi protected Dietrich Bonhoeffer from conscription by bringing him into the Abwehr with the claim Bonhoeffer's numerous ecumenical contacts could be useful for Germany.
In 1942, Dohnányi made it possible for two Jewish lawyers from