Marion Dönhoff

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German journalist and publisher

Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Wikipedia

Born: December 2, 1909, East Prussia

Died: March 11, 2002 (age 92 years), Friesenhagen, Germany

Books: Foe Into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt and Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia

Parents: Count August Karl von Dönhoff and Maria von Lepel

Siblings: Christoph Dönhoff

Awards: Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Heinrich Heine Prize, and Heinrich Heine prize of the city of Düsseldorf

Education: Universität Basel (1934–1935), University of Königsberg (1931–1931), and Goethe University Frankfurt