Alexander Schmorell: Co-Founder of White Rose

Alexander Schmorell

A Russian-born German-Russian student, medical student, and anti-Nazi resistance activist. Along with Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst, he became a central figure in the "White Rose," a student group that resisted the Nazi regime. Born to a German father and a Russian mother, he was raised with both German and Russian as his native languages. During World War II, he was deployed to the Eastern Front as a medic, experiencing the reality of war and occupied territories. From 1942, he produced anti-Nazi leaflets with Hans Scholl and also engaged in writing anti-Hitler slogans on walls in Munich. He attempted to flee after the White Rose's activities were discovered, but was arrested, sentenced to death by the People's Court, and executed on July 13, 1943, at Munich's Stadelheim Prison.

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Year	Alexander Schmorell
1917	Russian Civil War (Period: 1917–1922, Location: Russian Empire / Various parts of Russia) Birth of Alexander Schmorell (Period: September 16, 1917, Location: Orenburg (Russia))
1921	Emigration from Russia to Germany (Alexander Schmorell, Age: 3 years old, Period: 1921, Location: From Orenburg to Munich)
1937	Enlistment in the German Wehrmacht (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1937–1938, Location: Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia)
1938	World War II / German Annexation of Austria (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1938, Location: Austria) World War II / Invasion of Czechoslovakia (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1938–1939, Location: Czechoslovakia) Anschluss (annexation of Austria, Age: 20 years old, Period: March 1938, Location: Austria)
1939	Commencement of Medical Studies (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1939, Location: Hamburg)
1942	Formation of the White Rose Movement and Anti-Nazi Leaflet Activities (Age: 24 years old, Period: June 1942 – February 1943, Location: Munich, Southern Germany, Austria, etc.) Authoring White Rose Leaflets No. 1–4 (Age: 24 years old, Period: June–July 1942, Location: Munich) Formation of the White Rose with Hans Scholl (Age: 24 years old, Period: June 1942, Location: Munich) Deployment as a Medic to the Eastern Front (Age: 24 years old, Period: June–October 1942, Location: Around Gzhatsk, Soviet Union) Authoring and Distribution of Leaflet No. 5 (Age: 25 years old, Period: December 1942 – January 1943, Location: Munich, Austria, etc.)
1943	Anti-Nazi Graffiti Campaign (Age: 25 years old, Period: February 3–15, 1943, Location: Munich) Anti-Nazi Graffiti in Munich (Age: 25 years old, Period: February 3–15, 1943, Location: Munich City) Arrest of White Rose Affiliates (Age: 25 years old, Period: February 18–24, 1943, Location: Munich) Flight and Arrest (Age: 25 years old, Period: February 18–24, 1943, Location: Munich, towards the Swiss border) Second White Rose Trial (Age: 25 years old, Period: April 19, 1943, Location: People's Court in Munich) Death Sentence at the People's Court (Age: 25 years old, Period: April 19, 1943, Location: Munich) Death of Alexander Schmorell (Age: 25 years old, Period: July 13, 1943) Execution of Alexander Schmorell (Age: 25 years old, Period: July 13, 1943, Location: Stadelheim Prison (Munich)) Execution and Postwar Honoring (Age: 25 years old, Period: July 13, 1943 – February 5, 2012, Location: Munich, Orenburg, etc.)
Unknown	Marriage (Alexander Schmorell, None, Period: Never married, Location: Not Applicable)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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Alexander Schmorell: Co-Founder of White Rose