Emilie (Delbrück) Bonhoeffer (1905 - 1991)

Emilie Bonhoeffer formerly Delbrück

Born 1905 [location unknown]

Ancestors

Daughter of Hans Gottlieb Leopold Delbrück and Carolina (Thiersch) Delbrück

Sister of Justus Friedrich Gottlieb Leopold Delbrück and Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück

Wife of Klaus Bonhoeffer — married 3 Sep 1930 [location unknown]

Mother of [private son (1930s - unknown)]

Died 1991 at about age 86 [location unknown]

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Biography

Emilie (Delbrück) Bonhoeffer is Notable.

The Delbrücks came from the town of Alfeld an der Leine in the state of Lower Saxony. The family was very influential throughout the 19th century – in Prussia and subsequently in the German Empire. Emilie was about a year older than Max. Their parents were historian and Reichstag parliamentarian Hans Delbrück (1848-1929) and his wife Carolina Delbrück, née Thiersch (1864-1943). “Lina,” as she was known, was a granddaughter of renowned chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) and daughter-in-law of theologian Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930), considered a spiritual father of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Lina’s father was the famous surgeon Carl Thiersch (1822-1895), who conducted some of the first-ever skin transplants in 1886 and whose research focused on how cholera is transmitted. The Delbrücks had seven children in all: Waldemar (1892-1917, fell in WWI); Justus (1902-1945); Hanni; Lene; Emilie (1905-1991) and Max (1906-1981). ^[1]