Public Session – Berlin, /Handwritten: Munich/, February 22, 1943
Of the First Council of the People’s Court
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Tag Archives: Jakob Schmid
Möll’s testimony
It was unanimously agreed that:
There was no need to call the witness. Continue reading
Reading of indictment and leaflets into record
The representative of the Chief Prosecutor of the Reich then advised the accused, whose ____ excused recited the indictment against the accused. Continue reading
Start of first trial
Appearing as defense counsel:
a.) Attorney Klein for the accused Hans and Sophia Scholl
b.) Attorney Dr. Ferdinand Seidl for the accused Probst.
Both Attorney Klein and Attorney Seidl were required to defend the accused by order of the court. Continue reading
Indictment (Scholl and Probst)
Chief Prosecutor of the People’s Court – Berlin, February 21, 1943
H = Main Volume, S = Supplemental Volume.
Indictment Continue reading
Summary of case to date
With regards to Operation to scatter leaflets
In the university on February 18, 1943 Continue reading
Gestapo summary memorandum
Secret State Police [Gestapo]
State Police Headquarters Munich – Munich, February 20, 1943
Regarding: Scholl Hans Fritz, single, medical student – Born September 22, 1918 in Ingersheim – With regards to preparation for high treason Continue reading
Second interrogation of Hans Scholl
Secret State Police [Gestapo]
State Police Headquarters, Munich
Vol. No. II A/Sond./Mah. [Mahler] – Munich, February 18, 1943
Hans, Fritz Scholl 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
Jakob Schmid’s statement
II A-So./Schm. [Schmauβ] – Munich, February 18, 1943
Interrogation.
/Stamp: Reg/
Jakob Schmied [Note 1], 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 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 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 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
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
Hans Scholl and the suitcase
Question and Remonstrance: There is reason to believe that you brought the leaflets to the university in the suitcase and threw them from the third floor into the Lichthof. Do you not wish to make a true statement before long?
Answer: It is not true that I brought the leaflets to the university in my suitcase and threw them from the third floor into the Lichthof. I hereby expressly state that I alone carried this suitcase from my apartment till I was apprehended by Schmied.
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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943 (after 4 a.m.)
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 