Marie-Luise Jahn (28 May 1918 – 22 June 2010) was a

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physician and a member of the anti-

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resistance movement

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during

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Biography

Jahn was born in Sandlack,

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(today Sędławki, Poland), where she grew up. From 1934 to 1937, she attended school in

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and began her studies in chemistry at the

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in 1940. There Jahn became a close friend of

Hans Conrad Leipelt Hans Conrad Leipelt (18 July 1921 – 29 January 1945) was an Austrian member of the White Rose German resistance to Nazism, resistance group in Nazi Germany. Background Leipelt was born in Vienna. His father, Konrad Leipelt, was a graduate in ci ...

and a member of the

resistance group. After Hans and

Sophie Scholl Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been f ...

and

Christoph Probst Christoph Ananda Probst (6 November 1919 – 22 February 1943) was a German student of medicine and member of the White Rose (''Weiße Rose'') German resistance to Nazism, resistance group. Early life Probst was born in Murnau am Staffelsee. ...

had been imprisoned she continued to publish the Scholl leaflets and collected money to aid the widow of

Kurt Huber Kurt Huber (24 October 1893 – 13 July 1943) was a university professor and resistance fighter with the anti-Nazi group White Rose. For his involvement he was imprisoned and guillotined. Early life Huber was born in Chur, Switzerland, to Germ ...

. In October 1943, she was also arrested by the

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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.Biography
After her liberation, she studied medicine at the

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and worked as a physician in

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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.uni-protokolle.de
Her conviction was officially overturned on 8 September 2009 by the German Parliament when it cleared all World War II convictions for treason. She died on 22 June 2010 in

Literature

* Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn: ''"... und ihr Geist lebt trotzdem weiter!" - Widerstand im Zeichen der Weißen Rose,'' Berlin 2003, ISBN 9783936411256 * Gunther Staudacher: ''Margaretha Rothe und die Hamburger Weiße Rose – Sichtweisen ihres Umfelds,'' Balingen 2022, ISBN 978-3-7549-4365-6

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jahn, Marie-Luise 1918 births 2010 deaths People from East Prussia People from Bartoszyce County Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Tübingen alumni People condemned by Nazi courts White Rose members Female anti-fascists