[Note 1] Secret State Police [Gestapo]
State Police Headquarters Continue reading
Category Archives: Hans Scholl
Lockdown lifted
After the necessary police inquiries had been made, the lockdown of the university was lifted around 4 pm. Several persons had to be held for a longer time to check out their identification papers. All of those apprehended were taken to the State Police.
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Source: Undated case summary
Alex and Willi strategize
Not suspecting a thing, I met him. Schmorell told me that he had learned that two people had been arrested that morning at the university as they were distributing leaflets. He had called the Scholls in their apartment and no one had answered. He therefore had suspected that someone had arrested Scholl and his sister. Continue reading
Schmorell mid-afternoon
When I called Scholl around 3 p.m., an unknown man answered the phone and told me that Hans was not home. To me, this confirmed that something had to have happened to him. … Continue reading
Gestapo agent Achter’s memorandum
II E 3/Ach. [Achter] – Munich, February 18 [Note 1], 1943
/Handwritten: Illegible/ – /Handwritten: Arrest!/
Report. Continue reading
Summary of initial interrogation (Scholl)
Those apprehended by the university employee were Sergeant Hans Scholl, medic, born 1918, and his sister Sophie, born in 1921. Although the university employee asserted to their face that they were the only ones who could possibly be the perpetrators, they denied it. Continue reading
Gisela Schertling taken into custody
I met two Secret State Police agents in their apartment, and they took me into temporary custody. Continue reading
Jakob Schmid’s statement
II A-So./Schm. [Schmauβ] – Munich, February 18, 1943
Interrogation.
/Stamp: Reg/
Jakob Schmied [Note 1], Continue reading
Katharina Schüddekopf learns of arrests
I learned about the incident as such during a quiet assignment [Note 1] in the Romance [neo-Latin] seminar. [Male] students told me that leaflets had been distributed, and that in that context, two male students and 1 female student had been arrested. [Note 2] Continue reading
Gisela Schertling to Scholls’ apartment (second version)
Therefore I couldn’t do anything else but go from the university to Franz Joseph Str. 13 so I could hopefully meet up with Schmorell. Continue reading
Planned lunch with Otl Aicher
Question: Why would you drag an empty suitcase around the university?
Answer: My sister Sophie Scholl wanted to catch an express train to Ulm that left from the main train station around 12:28 or 4:30 pm. She was going to visit our parents. Continue reading
Gisela Schertling to Scholls’ apartment
I then went to the Scholls’ apartment (Franz Joseph Str. 13/1) to go to lunch with them at Kaiser Friedrich Gasthaus on Hohenzollern Str. Continue reading
What Hans shouted to Gisela
The first time I saw Hans Scholl again after that was when he was being led away by police officials. I immediately knew that he had been seen while distributing leaflets at the university. Continue reading
Additional information regarding shout-out
To today’s remonstrance that the thing that Hans Scholl called out to me at the university on February 18, 1943 appears rather curious and unclear, I can state the following: Continue reading
Gisela Schertling’s version of Hans’ shout-out
This morning I saw Scholl being led from the university. I was standing at the exit. He was led past me, about half a meter [1-1/2 feet] away. He saw me and called out to me: Alex is at home! Tell him I won’t be there this evening! Continue reading
Hans Scholl’s words to Gisela Schertling
Question: Today after you were taken into custody, have you spoken with any of your acquaintances? If so, what did you talk about?
Answer: Yes. As I was being led out of the university, I ran into Gisela Schertling still inside the building. Like all the other students, she also had to wait in the university foyer until the university was re-opened. I told her these exact words: “Go home and tell Alex, if he’s there, he should not wait for me.” Continue reading
Metternich re Scholl
I can only keep repeating that I do not personally know the student who called out to me and said that he could not come that evening. I most certainly was standing in close proximity to him when this shout emanated from him. Continue reading
Metternich – temporary custody
On February 18, 1943 around 11 am [Note 1], I along with KS Ammer was responsible for transporting the prisoner named Scholl from the university to the police station. Directly in front of the entrance to the university, Scholl suddenly turned to his right and said to a man something along the lines of: “Tell him I won’t be coming home this evening!” Continue reading
Immediate aftermath of arrests (Alexander Schmorell)
Now I will return to February 18, 1943, when Hans Scholl was taken into custody at the university for suspicion of distributing treasonous leaflets.
As I have already stated, Scholl and I spoke a day or two earlier about setting out the remaining leaflets, perhaps at the University of Munich. We did not make any more specific plans regarding when this was to take place or who should carry it out. Continue reading
Report of search (Mahler)
Supplementary Volume I
Secret State Police [Gestapo] – Munich, February 18, 1943
State Police Headquarters, Munich Continue reading
Leaflet 7 during arrest on February 18
When Scholl was apprehended, this draft [of the seventh leaflet] was found in the pocket of his clothes [Note 1]. Continue reading
Schmauβ re Gestapo arrest of Scholls
Schmauβ: The University of Munich’s Chief Privy Councilor Hefner immediately advised the State Police Headquarters in Munich of this incident. They immediately occupied the university building (which had been sealed off in the meantime), together with a large number of municipal police officials. Several hundred leaflets with the inscriptions “Fellow Students!” or “German Students” were seized in the university building. Continue reading
Schmid’s apprehension of Hans and Sophie Scholl
As I made my usual rounds throughout the university buildings today, February 18, 1943 around 11:15 am, and in so doing went down the stairs of the Lichthof [Note 1], I saw that a large amount of paper had been thrown from the Lichthof platform on the third floor [Note 2]. From where I stood, I could not see the place the paper was thrown from. But it was equally impossible for whoever was in the third floor hallway to see me without further ado. Continue reading
Scholl arrest
On February 18, 1943 around 11 am, the trustee of the university called the State Police Headquarters, because an operation to scatter leaflets were taking place at the time. Two suspicious persons were supposedly apprehended by the university employee Schmidt. Continue reading
Scheidhammer
Statement made by Jakob Schmid on February 18, 1943:
I took them [Note 1] to the property management office. Together with the supervisor, Secr. Scheidhammer, I led the detainees to the legal representative/trustee, RR Hefner, who informed the police. The detectives frisked the students whom I had detained. In so doing, they found several leaflets (folded) in the pockets of the male student. They secured these. In addition, I had observed that the male student had dropped several scraps of paper on the floor, or rather that he tried to drop the paper so it mingled with other papers in the room. Continue reading
The leaflet inside Hans Scholl’s pocket
… I picked up one of these leaflets and stuck it in the inside pocket of my coat without reading it. It was only later, namely while I was being held in the trustee, that I read this leaflet. … Continue reading
The process begins
My brother and I accompanied this man (we did not resist), the university’s maintenance man Jakob Schmied (sic), to the offices of the university trustee Dr. Häfner (sic). Continue reading
Hans Scholl revised story re Schmid
I had hardly finished doing so when I observed that the janitor was trying to follow us up to the third floor [German second floor]. And indeed, my sister and I were only a few meters away from the spot where I had thrown the leaflets before this man came up to us, declared that we were under arrest, and told us to our face that we had just thrown leaflets into the Lichthof. Continue reading
Hans Scholl narration re apprehension by Schmid
Question: Where were you, when you were detained by a university employee?
Answer: At that time, I was on the third floor, namely in the left corridor seen from the entrance on Ludwig Street, therefore in the southwest section of the university. I do not know if the Romance [Neo-Latin] Institute is located near that site. … Continue reading
Hans Scholl arrest
Scholl was taken into temporary custody in the University of Munich on February 18, 1943 around 11 am for suspicion of disseminating the leaflets “Fellow Students!”. He was then taken to the prison of the State Police Headquarters in Munich.
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Source: Initial interrogation of Hans Scholl, February 18, 1943.
Sophie Scholl re Jakob Schmid (v.1)
As already mentioned, we paused on the way up the stairs to pick up leaflets and to briefly read them as we continued to walk. That slowed our pace even further. Just as we had decided to go downstairs – from the third to the second floor – a man stormed up to us, grabbed my brother by the arm and said, “I place you under arrest!” … Continue reading
February 18 (from indictment)
On February 18, 1943, he [Hans Scholl] and his sister also scattered additional inflammatory leaflets. On this occasion, he was observed by the witness Schmied (sic) and was apprehended. [Note 1] … Continue reading
Schmauβ re Schmid
Schmauβ: On February 18, 1943 around 11:15 am, Jakob Schmid, who resides at Türken Str. 33/I and is the maintenance man employed by the University of Munich, was making his rounds. He noticed that a large quantity of leaflets were thrown off the third floor platform of the university’s Lichthof. Schmid immediately made his way to the place in question and determined that the student Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie Scholl were the presumptive perpetrators, since no one else was nearby. Continue reading
Sophie throws leaflets over balustrade (v.1)
When I saw the leaflets stacked there on the third floor, I immediately knew that these had to be the same leaflets that my brother and I had found on the stairs and on the entrance to the second floor. As I walked by, I gave the stack of papers that were on the balustrade a little shove, so they fluttered to the ground into the Lichthof. Continue reading
Throwing leaflets over the balustrade
In my high spirits or stupidity I made the mistake of throwing about 80 – 100 leaflets from the third floor down into the Lichthof, whereupon my brother and I were discovered.
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Source: Second interrogation of Sophie Scholl, February 19, 1943
Hans Scholl’s initial version of leaflets-over-balustrade
Question: Did you see leaflets in any other place inside the university today?
Answer: Yes. Namely on the balustrade on the third floor, near the columns of the stairwell. Continue reading
Hans Scholl revised story about balustrade
From there [second floor, German first floor] we went up to the third floor (left-hand side) where I threw the rest of my leaflets over the balustrade into the Lichthof. Continue reading
Actions inside university
Question: While inside the university, were you always accompanied by your sister?
Answer: Yes. She had just as little to do in the university as I did. Continue reading
Gisela Schertling sees stacks of leaflets
When we – that is, I – left the lecture, there was a pile of these leaflets in front of the door. I immediately knew that these leaflets came from Hans Scholl. Continue reading
Hans Scholl revised story about university, part 2
At this point, my sister and I turned around and went back up to the second floor [German first floor], where I continued to set out stacks of leaflets. Continue reading
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 