Marie-Luise Jahn
Marie-Luise Jahn | |
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Born | |
Died | 22 June 2010 Bad Tölz, Germany | (aged 92)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Munich University of Tübingen |
Occupation(s) | Physician and resistance member |
Marie-Luise Jahn (28 May 1918 – 22 June 2010) was a German physician and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose during World War II.
Biography
Jahn was born in Sandlack, East Prussia (today Sędławki, Poland), where she grew up. From 1934 to 1937, she attended school in Berlin and began her studies in chemistry at the University of Munich in 1940. There Jahn became a close friend of Hans Conrad Leipelt and a member of the White Rose resistance group. After Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst had been imprisoned she continued to publish the Scholl leaflets and collected money to aid the widow of Kurt Huber. In October 1943, she was also arrested by the Gestapo for treason and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment by the Volksgerichtshof in 1944. She served 1.5 years of that sentence before the war ended.[1][2]
After her liberation, she studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and worked as a physician in Bad Tölz in Bavaria, Germany. In 1987, she was a founding member of the White Rose Foundation and was a member of the executive board until 2002.[3]
Her conviction was officially overturned on 8 September 2009 by the German Parliament when it cleared all World War II convictions for treason.[2]
Jahn died in Bad Tölz on 22 June 2010, at the age of 92.
Literature
- Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn: "... und ihr Geist lebt trotzdem weiter!" - Widerstand im Zeichen der Weißen Rose, Berlin 2003, ISBN 9783936411256 (in German)
References
- ^ Biography[permanent dead link] (in German)
- ^ a b "Marie-Luise Jahn - Innocents Database of Exonerations". www.forejustice.org. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ uni-protokolle.de Archived 2018-11-05 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
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