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After the Machtergreifung 1933 the gentile board members Felix Boehm and Carl Müller-Braunschweig of the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (DPG) quickly succeeded in averting the immediately menacing destruction of the association. How this discreet surprising “salvation” of the DPG as organisation became possible, by intercession of a leading member of the Nazi “Kampfbund für Deutsche Kultur”, is topic of this article. It will be made clear which bill to the future Boehm and Müller-Braunschweig were willing to draw, without making this a subject of discussion within the committees of the DPG or in the talks with the representatives of the IPA like Jones, Ophuizen or with Freud himself: The complete medium term exclusion of the Jewish members and of the Jewish roots of Psychoanalysis. the withdrawal of all Jewish DPG members certainly did not happen before 1935 and the end of the DPG not until 1938, but the concealed, decisive setting of the points for the further “development” of Psychoanalysis in Germany took place as early as August 1933. After the war Boehm became the leading figure of the reconstituted DPG, Müller-Braunschweig founded in 1951 the new Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (DPV).