Christine von Dohnanyi

Bonhoeffer's family dynamic and his parents' values enabled her to receive a high level of education.

Beside her husband and her brother Dietrich Bonhoeffer, she was also arrested by the Gestapo in the house in Sacrow on 5 April 1943 on suspicion of treason.

[3][6] For a long time, Hans von Dohnanyi knew nothing about the arrest of his wife and brother-in-law and attempted unsuccessfully to send letters to Christine from prison.

[8] She smuggled diphtheria bacilli several times to enable him to escape interrogations,[9] but also secret messages into her husband's prison.

Any contact was made through the examining magistrate Manfred Roeder, who had a considerable influence on the possibilities of visiting and writing.