SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Hans Scholl

1918 - 1943

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Hans Fritz Scholl (German: [hans ʃɔl] ; 22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943) was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Scholl has received more than 784,026 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Hans Scholl is the 118th most popular social activist, the 917th most popular biography from Germany (up from 945th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Social Activist.

Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie were members of the White Rose group, which was a German resistance movement against the Nazi regime. They helped to produce and distribute anti-Nazi leaflets in Munich. Hans was executed by guillotine on February 22, 1943, and Sophie was executed by guillotine on October 16, 1943.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Hans Scholl ranks 118 out of 840. Before him are René Cassin, An Jung-geun, Frank Costello, Alexander Parvus, Yun Chi-ho, and Léon Jouhaux. After him are Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Sophia of Prussia, Gaius Julius Civilis, Betty Ford, Flora Tristan, and Mordechai Anielewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Hans Scholl ranks 42. Before him are James Tobin, Maurice Druon, Jerome Karle, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Yasuhiro Nakasone, and Julian Schwinger. After him are Patricio Aylwin, Edward B. Lewis, Betty Ford, Birgit Nilsson, Günther Rall, and Fanny Blankers-Koen. Among people deceased in 1943, Hans Scholl ranks 30. Before him are Gustav Vigeland, Max Reinhardt, Jean Moulin, Leslie Howard, Etty Hillesum, and Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal. After him are Franz Oppenheimer, Mordechai Anielewicz, André Antoine, Oskar Schlemmer, Viktor Lutze, and Lydia Litvyak.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Scholl ranks 917 out of 7,253. Before him are Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), Leo Strauss (1899), and Hans Sachs (1494). After him are Albert of Saxony (1828), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Luise Rainer (1910), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Thomas Tuchel (1973), and Julius Schreck (1898).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Hans Scholl ranks 10. Before him are Martin Niemöller (1892), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Horst Wessel (1907), Widukind (755), and Anneliese Michel (1952). After him are Sophia of Prussia (1870), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Paul Schäfer (1921), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), and Gerda Christian (1913).

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