Career
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"). Meanwhile, in 1932, he was adjutant to Erwin Bumke, Imperial Court President (Reichsgerichtspräsident; at this time, Germany was still officially the German Empire, Deutsches Reich.) In this capacity, he put together Prussia's lawsuit against the Empire, which Prussia had brought after the Preußenschlag, Franz von Papen's dissolution of the Prussian social-democratic government through an emergency decree in 1932.
As an adviser to Franz Gürtner from 1934 to 1938, von Dohnanyi got to know Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring. He also had access to the justice ministry's most secret documents.
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