Inge Scholl

Inge Aicher-Scholl (11 August 1917 – 4 September 1998), born in present-day Crailsheim, Germany, was the daughter of Robert Scholl, mayor of Forchtenberg, and elder sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who studied at the University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Inge Scholl wrote several books about the White Rose after the war.^[1]

Inge Aicher-Scholl
Commemorative plaque to Inge Aicher-Scholl
Born	Inge Scholl (1917-08-11)11 August 1917 Ingersheim, German Empire
Died	4 September 1998(1998-09-04) (aged 81) Leutkirch im Allgäu, Germany
Spouse	Otl Aicher ​ ​ (m. 1952; died 1991)​
Parent(s)	Robert Scholl Magdalena Müller
Relatives	Hans Scholl (brother) Sophie Scholl (sister) Werner Scholl (brother) Elisabeth Hartnagel (sister)

The White Rose and the Scholl family during the war

The White Rose was a student group who printed and distributed leaflets highly critical of Nazi war crimes, particularly against the Jews on the eastern front. They said the war could not be won and were mostly active after the Wehrmacht's disastrous reverse at the Battle of Stalingrad and the collapse of Operation Barbarossa. They warned that the German people might become "forever the nation hated and rejected by all mankind".^[2] Sophie and Hans were caught distributing the leaflets, tried for treason and executed by guillotine, along with another White Rose member, Christoph Probst. Inge and other Scholl family members were arrested and interrogated, but later released.

After the war

In 1955, Inge published her first book about the White Rose, titled Die Weiße Rose; it was the first book ever written about the White Rose. Since its publishing, it has been translated into multiple languages.^[3]

Inge, her husband Otl Aicher, and Max Bill (a former student at the Bauhaus) founded the Ulm School of Design in Ulm, Germany in 1953. She was heavily involved in the peace movement in the later half of the 20th century. She died of cancer on 4 September 1998 in Leutkirch im Allgäu.

References

1. "Their Story". Archived from the original on 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
2. Inge Scholl, Students Against Tyranny: The Resistance of the White Rose, Munich, 1942–1943, translated by Arthur R. Schultz (Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970), pp. 77–84, 89–90. (Via: Stackelberg, Roderick; Winkle, Sally Anne (2002). The Nazi Germany sourcebook: an anthology of texts p. 307. ISBN 978-0-415-22214-3)
3. Scholl, Inge (2011). The White Rose : Munich, 1942-1943. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-7272-1. OCLC 767498250.