Hans
Scholl and his Family
| In
1930 the family, meanwhile with five children, moved to
Ludwigsburg, and two years later to Ulm, where their
father worked as an independent tax consultant. The
solidarity and the way of education had surely formed the
later life of the growing children. Otl Aicher, husband
of the oldest sister Inge about this:"...because
he was a liberal man, not liberal in the meaning of the
upper middle-class or the German nationalism, but in the
meaning of progress and change."
(H. Winke "The short life of Sophie Scholl" p.
16) |
Sophie Scholl
|
In the early 1930s even
the Scholls weren't spared from the political shock when Hitler
with his party came to power. Hans Scholl and later his brothers
and sisters joined the "Hitlerjugend", or the
"Bund Deutscher Mädel" with great determination. They
were engaged and they managed the tasks they were given in a
brilliant way. Soon the children became group-leaders. Their
father saw this development with dismay. "Don't trust them, they are the
wolves and bear drover and they maltreat the German people
terribly." (Inge Aicher-Scholl
"The White Rose" S. 15)
He compared Hitler with
the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who bait the children with his flute
into disaster. He compared the people who were enthusiastic for
Hitler, with these children who went into their disaster, without
thinking about it. But his words had no success and his try to
hold them back, was lost at their enthusiasm. There was often a
disparity of views. From the beginning he faced Hitler and his
politics with great distance. First doubts at the national
socialism of the children grew up slowly through different
events:
