Permanent series: Women of German History - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1991 - 150 Pfennig

Sophie Scholl, together with her brother Hans and her friends Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst and Willi Graf, is one of the leading minds of the Munich resistance group »Weiße Rose«. Born May 9, 1921 in Forchtenberg / Württemberg as the daughter of the mayor Robert Scholl, Sophie Scholl spent her childhood in a strongly Protestant-oriented parental home. After her graduation she goes to Munich to study philosophy and biology. She is immediately integrated into the circle of friends around Hans Scholl. The friends around Hans and Sophie Scholl do not only want to focus on the preservation of their intellectual independence at the strongly National Socialist-oriented Munich University, but openly fight with leaflets against the regime. In the summer of 1942, the first leaflets of the "White Rose" were published, which turned sharply against the war and National Socialist violent crimes. In January 1943, at the height of the Battle of Stalingrad, the White Rose called for passive resistance with wall slogans and pamphlets. "Even the stupidest Germans have opened their eyes to the terrible bloodbath that they have wrought in the name of freedom and honor of the German nation throughout Europe and daily new things. The German name will be shamed forever unless the German youth finally stands up, avenges and atones at the same time, shatters their tormentors and sets up a new spiritual Europe. "On February 18, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl distribute this leaflet at the University of Munich, the Rest they throw in the local atrium. A servant of the household arrests both of them and brings them to the rector, SS-Oberführer Dr. Walter Wust. Shortly thereafter, the Gestapo appears. On February 22, 1943, the first senate of the People's Court under the chairmanship of Roland Freisler sentenced the students Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl to death. The verdict is enforced the same day in Munich-Stadelheim Prison. (Text: The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Chancellery - Dr. Johannes Tuchel)