- Hans Conrad Leipelt
Hans Conrad Leipelt (
18 July 1921 –29 January 1945 ) was a member of theWhite Rose resistance group inNazi Germany .Leipelt was born in
Vienna . His father was a graduate incivil engineering , and his mother achemist from a Christian family withJew ish roots. In 1925, the family moved toHamburg , where Hans did his "Abitur " in 1938, and then reported to the "Reichsarbeitsdienst " and theWehrmacht . He was decorated with theIron Cross second class and theTank Destruction Badge in June 1940 during the French campaign. He was dishonourably released from duty because he was aMischling first grade.In the autumn of 1940, he began his
chemistry studies at theUniversity of Hamburg , but transferred in the 1941-1942 winter semester to theUniversity of Munich , as student ofHeinrich Otto Wieland . This was only possible because Wieland had some freedom because he had received theNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1927. In February 1943, Leipelt received the White Rose's sixth leaflet and, together withMarie-Luise Jahn , began using atypewriter to make copies of it to distribute about Hamburg. When they were both collecting money for the executed ProfessorKurt Huber 's widow, they were denounced and arrested. Leipelt was sentenced to death on13 October 1944 inDonauwörth by the "Volksgerichtshof ". Jahn was given a 12-year labour prison ("Zuchthaus") sentence. Leipelt's beheading followed inStadelheim Prison in Munich.References
* "Hans Leipelt und Marie-Luise Jahn. Studentischer Widerstand in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus am Chemischen Staatslabor der Universität München" LM Universum von Hans-Michael Körner and Wolfgang Smolka, 2003 Munich, ISBN 3-926163-31-3
External links
* [http://www.die-harburger.de/unser_harburg/stolpersteine/leipelt-hans.html More Information] de icon
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