• Peter Bonitz (born 1941) was a member of the local parliament of Thuringia state, Germany from 1999 to 2004. He is a member of the conservative party, CDU. He represented the constituency Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis II, which includes the city of Bad Langensalza.

• Sylvia Bonitz (born 1966) was a representative in the German parliament (the Deutsche Bundestag) from 1998 to 2002. She is a member of the conservative party, CDU. Among others, she was a member of the board for internal affairs, member of the board for media and culture, as well as deputy chairperson of the German-Portuguese group of representatives.

• Laurentius Bonitz, musician. He published several recordings, playing the violin. 1992-1995 he was director of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. 1995-2006 Director of Concerts for the City of Bonn and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn.

• In 1925 there were three Bonitz entries in the Oklahoma City directory: C(h)ris A. Bonitz, Clarence A. Bonitz, and Milburn W. Bonitz.
  'Cris A. Bonitz' is Christopher Amandus Bonitz (1870-1937); Clarence Amandus Bonitz is his son. Only the connection of Milburn Walter Bonitz to this family is still unknown.
  This Bonitz family descends from Frederick (Friedrich) Christopher Bonitz who emigrated from Saxony (Germany) to Texas supposedly before 1860.

• Born in Dresden (Germnany), Eberhard Bonitz (1921-1980) was a composer, organist, director of music, and expert for church organs. Among others, he lived and worked in Naila, Ellwangen, and Lingen. He wrote and published many musical works for organ, chamber music, songs, canons, and arrangements for choirs. Eberhard Bonitz performed large concerts in Ellwangen, including works of Bach, Händel, Mozart, Haydn, as well as musical masses of the 20th century. In Lingen he was particularly well-known for his talented improvisations at the church organ.

• A Bonitz Street can be found in Harrisburg, PA.
  The street is called John Bonitz Drive and it is located at the grounds of Community General Osteopathic Hospital.
  It was named after John T. Bonitz Sr. (1904-1991), a resident of Harrisburg who was a former teacher at the former Edison Junior High School; a former professional football player with the former Pottsville Maroons, Philadelphia Yellow Jackets, and Newark Bears; a former college football All-American and a member of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

• Oswin Bonitz (born May 5, 1902) was politically active during the 1920s. For his commitment and his membership in the Communist Party, the "Red Aid" and the alliance against fascism, he was reprimanded several times. In 1944 he was deported to concentration camp Flossenbürg. During the evacuation from Flossenbürg to the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 Oswin was murdered together with five other prisoners.
  A memorial stone at a road junction in Rödlitz (district Zwickau, Saxony) was erected in 1964 to remember the six communist opponents of the Hitler regime.

• Since 1894 Oskar Louis Bonitz ran the Carl Krieger store for linen, notions, passementerie, smallware, and gentlemen's requisites in Oschatz. Presumably he came from Burgstädt to Oschatz where he is listed from 1906 to 1930. In the 1937 Oschatz directory there also is an entry for O. Bonitz.

Thanks to Mr. Horst Kohl and his web site Oschatz in those days for providing this information and the corresponding pictures.

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• Between 1885 and 1914 Woldemar Bonitz was a resident of the baltic sea port Liepaja (formerly: Libau or Libawa). The city was under Russian administration at that time. Today it is a part of Latvia.
  Bonitz was owner of a confectionery and coffee house on Valdema'ra Road No. 2. The two-story red brick house was built for Woldemar Bonitz around 1898. It was designed by M. P. Bertchy and features a front made in plaster with wide shop windows. Bonitz's café possessed a wonderful interior with romantic ceiling paintings.
  
  Woldemar's son, Kurt, was born in Libau in July 1885. He is mentioned later as a resident of Kukarka, Russia, reporting about the repressions German settlers in the region had to endure during World War I. Allthough being Russian citizen, his father was arrested and, after spending 6 months in custody, he was deported from Libawa to Sernowodsk near Samara.
  
  Currently, it is not known when this Bonitz family came to Libau and where they lived before. Woldemar died in 1934, but the whereabouts of his descendants are still unkown today.
  More pictures of the Bonitz coffee house can be found in the photo archive.

• There is a Bonitz Street existing in the city of Philadelphia, PA.
  It is located close to the Wayne Railway Junction.
  
  This Bonitz street was named after the company Decker & Bonitz (William Decker und Herman Bonitz). In 1890, the company was located in the immediate neighborhood at the corner of Wayne Avenue and Bristol Street.
  Decker and Bonitz Card Clothing Co. owned a 2 story brick building. They produced carding machinery, used in the textile industry to pre-process wool or cotton fibres before spinning and weaving.
  Currently it is unknown what family Herman Bonitz belonged to.
  It is also not clear where and when he was born, and when he came to the U.S.
  He is listed in the 1888 and 1889 Worcester, MA Directories, residing 26 Southbridge St. with the Richards family.
  In 1890 he can be found in the Philadelphia City Directory.

• Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (William) Bonitz (1839-1913) immigrated to the U.S. in 1855. He and his family came from Zellerfeld (Germany). In Goldsboro and Wilmington (North Carolina) he was co-proprietor of the Goldsboro and Wilmington Messengers, together with with his brother Julius. William was also running a hotel business in Wilmington.
  
  A biography of the Bonitz brothers can be found in our section "biographies".
  
  
  The image shows a historic view of the Bonitz Hotel in Wilmington.

  (taken from a webseite of Robert M. Fales. Copyright 1998 by New Hanover County Public Library)

• William's son was Henry E. Bonitz, architect of Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.
  Among others, he designed the "Ellerbe Springs Inn" in Richmond, North Carolina, a building in typical Victorian style.
  He also built the neo-classical Alumni Memorial Building of 1897 at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (picture).

• Hermann Bonitz (1814-1888) of Langensalza was a classical philologist and philosopher. In Vienna and Berlin he established a new concept for reforming the high school systems of Austria and Prussia. Even today, his translation and interpretation of Aristoteles' "Metaphysic" is widely used by students and researchers.
  He was a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
  See also the 1911 Online Encyclopedia for more information in English on Hermann Bonitz.
  
  A complete biography can be found in our section "biographies".
  
• The Vienna University and the Vienna Academy of Sciences repeatedly honored research on philosophical topics by giving a special Bonitz Award.
  In 1919 e.g., the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Heinemann (Berlin) received the Bonitz Award for his works on Plotin.

• Johann Michael Bonitz (1730-1765) of Kühnhaide (near Zwönitz), Saxony.
  Albert Schiffner writes in his "Handbook of Geography ... of the Saxony Kingdom" (1839): "Michael bonitz, who was born here (in Kühnheide) in 1730 was talked about a lot in former times, as he was considered a prophet and idolator."