Asteroid 7256, Bonhoeffer, was discovered on November 11, 1993 by Friedrich Börngen at Tautenburg, Thuringia, Germany. It has a period of 3 years, 345 days.
Bonhoeffer was named after the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who resisted the Nazis, was persecuted by them and ended up executed by them at Flossenbürg concentration camp just a few weeks before the suicide of Hitler and defeat of Nazi Germany.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Astrologically, Bonhoeffer seems to indicate humanitarian work; standing up for human rights or something higher; to get involved; "if not me, who, and if not now, when?".
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, had Bonhoeffer semisquare Ceres, square Elatus, Lilith and Pandora, and quincunx Varuna.
Martin Luther King had Bonhoeffer in the eighth house, on the ninth cusp, square the Moon and Ceres and trine Vesta.
Susan B. Anthony had Bonhoeffer trine Mars, Chaos, and Pandora.
Larry Kramer, founder of ACT UP, has Bonhoeffer conjunct Pallas and the South Node and opposite the North Node.
Cesar Chavez had Bonhoeffer in the ninth house, on the Midheaven, semisextile Chiron, semisextile/quincunx the Nodes, sextile Uranus and quincunx Pholus.
Malcolm X had Bonhoeffer in the first house, trine Vesta, opposite Pluto, parallel Chaos and contraparallel Ceres.
Dorothy Stang had Bonhoeffer sextile Pallas, square Elatus and trine Chaos.
Andrei Sakharov had Bonhoeffer trine Don Quixote and opposite Pluto.
Fred Korematsu challenged his World War II detention for being of Japanese descent in court. He had Bonhoeffer conjunct Dioretsa, sextile Chaos, square Mercury and Vesta and trine Don Quixote.
Iris Chang, who exposed Japanese atrocities in China during the 1930s, had Bonhoeffer square Vesta, Elatus and Chariklo.
Longtime Native American activist Russell Means has Bonhoeffer sextile Venus and Pluto.
Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has Bonhoeffer quincunx Venus and Don Quixote.
The glyph for Bonhoeffer is mine.