Dark family tree season 3

Most family trees of Dark draw the same person several times, once for each year in which the series shows them. This Dark family tree season 3 chart draws each person once. The older selves, the Stranger, Adam and Eva, are written under the name as roles, and the people table below says at which ages the series shows each one.

Each family is drawn as an ordinary tree, from the oldest generation at the top. Some ties would bend a tree back on itself, because a descendant turns out to be the parent of an ancestor. Those ties are drawn as loop lines, arcs outside the tree with an arrow at the ancestor and words at each end, so the tree can still be read from top to bottom. Ties of parenthood that cross from one family to another without a loop are grey dashed lines.

A square is a man and a circle is a woman, and a cross marks a death. The red ring holds the Kahnwalds, the blue ring the Nielsens, the green ring the Dopplers and the brown ring the Tiedemanns. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols.

Jonas Kahnwald stands at the centre. In the first scene of the first episode his father, Michael, takes his own life.¹ Season 1 then shows that Michael is Mikkel Nielsen, the boy who vanishes in 2019, falls back to 1986 and is adopted there by Ines Kahnwald. Ines is the daughter of Daniel Kahnwald, the police chief of 1953.^1,4

Michael marries Hannah, born Krüger, and Jonas is their son.⁴ Hannah has an affair with Ulrich Nielsen, which she says she ended.¹ The Dark family tree season 3 chart draws Mikkel once, under his Nielsen parents, with an adoptive line from Ines and the name Michael as his role from 1986.

Jonas himself is three people in the series. The Ringer names the hooded Stranger of Season 1 as the future Jonas, and the TV Guide guide says that one version of Jonas grows up to be Adam, who wants to end the cycle.^5,2

Ulrich and Katharina are married, and their children are Magnus, Martha and Mikkel. Ulrich’s parents are Tronte and Jana, and Tronte’s mother is Agnes.⁴ In Season 1 Ulrich travels to 1953 and meets the boy Tronte and his mother there.¹

Agnes is the sister of Noah, the priest who recruits for the time machine.^4,1 Season 3 adds the last pieces. Tronte’s father is the Unknown, and Inverse reports that the Unknown is the son of Jonas and the Martha of the other world.⁷ TV Guide calls that version of Martha Eva, a future Martha equal to Jonas as Adam.²

Jonas is therefore the son of Mikkel and also, through his own son, an ancestor of Mikkel. Den of Geek puts it that Jonas is both the nephew of Martha and her great great grandfather.⁶ The chart draws the Unknown under Jonas and Martha and joins him to Tronte with a Loop line.

Bernd and Greta Doppler are the parents of Helge, and Helge is the father of Peter.⁴ In Season 1 the elderly Helge dies in a car crash with his younger self.¹ Peter marries Charlotte, the police chief, and their daughters are Franziska and Elisabeth.^4,6

Charlotte was raised by the clockmaker H. G. Tannhaus, her adoptive grandfather, and by the end of Season 2 Noah is known to be her father.^4,6 Season 3 closes the loop. Elisabeth marries Noah, and their daughter is Charlotte, so Charlotte and Elisabeth are each the mother of the other.^6,4

TV Guide notes that its own entries describe this loop in two ways, which leaves the exact order unclear.² The Dark family tree season 3 chart keeps Elisabeth under Peter and Charlotte and draws the loop from Elisabeth back to Charlotte.

Egon and Doris Tiedemann are the parents of Claudia, who runs the nuclear plant in 1986, and Claudia is the mother of Regina.^4,5 Inverse reports that Season 3 names Bernd Doppler as the father of Regina.⁷ Regina marries Aleksander Köhler, who was born Boris Niewald, and their son is Bartosz.^6,4

Silja is the daughter of Hannah and Egon, so she is the half sister of Jonas. With Bartosz she has two children, Hanno, who becomes Noah, and Agnes. Silja dies giving birth to Agnes.² The Tiedemanns are therefore the grandparents, through Bartosz, of the Nielsens, and the Dark family tree season 3 chart draws the grey and red lines that carry the blood from right to left.

Season 3 adds a second world beside the first. TV Guide calls them Adam’s world and Eva’s world. Eva’s world is the one in which Mikkel never travels into the past, and Adam wants to destroy both worlds.³ Both worlds come from a third, the origin world, where Tannhaus loses his son Marek, Marek’s wife Sonja and their baby daughter Charlotte in a car crash in 1971 and builds a machine to save them.^3,2

Jonas and Martha go to the origin world and stop that crash, and both of their own worlds are wiped from existence. In the last scene, at a dinner in the origin world, the people of the knot are gone. TV Guide names Jonas, Martha, Magnus, Mikkel, Ulrich, Tronte, Agnes, Noah, Charlotte, Elisabeth, Franziska, Bartosz and Silja among them, while Regina, Peter, Katharina and Hannah are alive.³ Den of Geek adds that the Tiedemanns are safe.⁶

The last position of the Dark family tree season 3 chart is that origin world. Move to it and the knot falls away, leaving the people who were never part of it.