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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sophie Scholl

1921 - 1943

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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 found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich (LMU) with her brother, Hans. For her actions, she was executed by guillotine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophie Scholl has received more than 3,695,132 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Sophie Scholl is the 38th most popular social activist (down from 35th in 2019), the 316th most popular biography from Germany (up from 319th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Social Activist.

Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi activist who was executed by guillotine at the age of 22. She was convicted of high treason for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at the University of Munich, and was executed with her brother Hans.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sophie Scholl ranks 38 out of 538. Before her are Ferdinand Lassalle, Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Emily Greene Balch, Simon bar Kokhba, and Nicholas Winton. After her are Jan Palach, Emma Goldman, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Emmeline Pankhurst, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Carl von Ossietzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Sophie Scholl ranks 17. Before her are Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Yves Montand, Hua Guofeng, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Joseph Beuys, and Giulietta Masina. After her are Simone Signoret, Gunnar Nordahl, Paulo Freire, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Ustinov, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. Among people deceased in 1943, Sophie Scholl ranks 13. Before her are Camille Claudel, Simone Weil, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, and Yakov Dzhugashvili. After her are Henri La Fontaine, Beatrix Potter, Nikolai Vavilov, Alexandre Millerand, Max Wertheimer, and Władysław Sikorski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sophie Scholl ranks 316 out of 6,142. Before her are Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Konrad Zuse (1910), Pina Bausch (1940), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), and Valentinian II (371). After her are Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Karen Horney (1885), Robert Bunsen (1811), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Simone Signoret (1921), and Hermann Fegelein (1906).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Sophie Scholl ranks 4. Before her are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Thomas Müntzer (1489), and Martin Niemöller (1892). After her are Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Anneliese Michel (1952), Horst Wessel (1907), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Paul Schäfer (1921), Hans Scholl (1918), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Sophia of Prussia (1870).

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