Bonhoeffer family controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1945
Nazi executions of Bonhoeffer family members
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Klaus Bonhoeffer, and the family’s brothers-in-law Hans von Dohnányi and Rüdiger Schleicher were executed by the Nazi regime for resistance activities.
1933
Association with Nazi-era psychiatric policy
Karl Bonhoeffer worked within German psychiatry during the Nazi period and had initially supported some sterilization policies, but the family account states that he refused to participate in the Nazi compulsory sterilization program. His institutional context is significant because his Charité successor, Max de Crinis, became involved in the Nazi euthanasia system.