The Dohnányi family () is a Hungarian noble family, whose members became noted politicians and musicians related to composer

Ernst von Dohnányi Ernst von Dohnányi (Hungarian: ''Dohnányi Ernő'', ; 27 July 1877 – 9 February 1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conducting, conductor. He used the German form of his name on most published compositions. Biography Dohnányi was bo ...

. The family also became part of the

Austrian nobility The Austrian nobility () is a status group that was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary. Austria's system of nobility was very similar to that of Germany (see German nobility), as both countries were previously part of ...

, granted to them in 1653 by

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, Kingdom of Hungary, King of Hungary and Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatia from 1625, Kingdom of Bohemia, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emper ...

Notable members

*Frederick Dohnányi (; 1843–1909), Hungarian professor of mathematics and amateur cellist; father of Ernst *

(; 1877–1960), Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer *

Hans von Dohnanyi Hans von Dohnanyi (; originally ''Johann von Dohnányi'' ; 1 January 1902 – 8 or 9 April 1945) was a Germans, German jurist. He used his position in the Abwehr to help Jews escape Germany, worked with German resistance to Nazism, German r ...

(1902–1945), son of Ernst; German jurist and resistance fighter against the Third Reich * Klaus von Dohnanyi (born 1928), son of Hans; German politician, mayor of Hamburg *

Christoph von Dohnányi Christoph von Dohnányi (; born 8 September 1929) is a German conducting, conductor. Biography Youth and World War II Dohnányi was born in Berlin, Germany to Hans von Dohnanyi, a German jurist of Hungarian ancestry, and Christine von Dohnan ...

(born 1929), son of Hans; German conductor *

Justus von Dohnányi Justus von Dohnányi (born 2 December 1960) is a German actor, best known for portraying Wilhelm Burgdorf in 2004 film '' Downfall''. Life and career Born in Lübeck, von Dohnányi is the son of conductor Christoph von Dohnányi and actress Re ...

(born 1960), son of Christoph; German actor *

Oliver von Dohnányi Oliver von Dohnányi (born 2 March) is a Slovak conductor based in Prague, Czech Republic. Dohnányi was born in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) and studied violin, composition and conducting at the Prague Academy for Music under V� ...

(born 1955), Slovak conductor, descended from a brother of an eighteenth-century ancestor of Ernő {{DEFAULTSORT:Dohnanyi family