Hans Scholl
- For the astronomer, see Hans Scholl (astronomer)
Hans Scholl (22 September 1918 - 22 February 1943) was a member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany.
Hans was born in Ingersheim, a district of Crailsheim.
He, along with his sister, Sophie, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Professor Kurt Huber, wrote and distributed six leaflets denouncing Nazi actions in Europe and calling on the German people to resist what their government was doing. They distributed these leaflets in the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where they studied, and the University in Hamburg. They also mailed the leaflets to doctors, scholars, and pub owners across Germany, trying to spread the message as far as possible.
Hans and his sister were discovered on 18 February 1943 while distributing the sixth leaflet in Munich. They flung the leaflets from the top of the atrium as students exited from their exams, and they were seen by one of the janitors, and arrested by the Gestapo. They were tried for treason along with their friend Probst, by Judge Roland Freisler, known for his predetermined "guilty" verdicts, and all three were executed only a few hours later by guillotine on 22 February 1943. Hans Scholl's last words were "Es lebe die Freiheit!" ("Long live freedom!").
Shortly thereafter, most of the other students involved were arrested and executed as well.
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