Inge Aicher-Scholl

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Inge Aicher-Scholl (born August 11, 1917 in Ingersheim - Altenmünster (today Crailsheim ); † September 4, 1998 in Leutkirch im Allgäu ) was a German cultural worker, founder and director of the Ulm Adult Education Center (1946–1978), co-founder of the university for Design Ulm and writer .

Life

Inge Scholl was the first of six children of the married couple Magdalena and Robert Scholl , their siblings were Hans (1918–1943), Elisabeth Hartnagel nee. Scholl (1920–2020), Sophie (1921–1943), Werner (1922–1944) and Thilde (1925–1926) (see also Scholl siblings ). Sophie and Hans were as members of the student resistance group White Rose in February 1943 for their participation in the resistance against the Nazis executed . Although her parents brought up Christian-humanistic values, Inge Scholl was involved in the 1930s against her father's will in a leading position in the Hitler Youth at the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM).

From 1932 Scholl lived in Ulm . In 1946 she founded the Ulm Adult Education Center - as one of the first adult education centers in post-war Germany - in the Martin Luther Church , which she also directed until 1974. In 1947 she wrote the book The White Rose about her siblings Hans and Sophie and the Munich resistance group to which they belonged. In 1950 Inge Scholl brought the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation into being as the sponsor of the Ulm School of Design. In 1952 she married the designer Otl Aicher and since then has been called Inge Aicher-Scholl. She had five children with him.

The family's studio houses in Rotis

In 1972 the family moved to Rotis , a district of Leutkirch im Allgäu , where her husband built several studio houses in the 1980s . In the late 1960s, Inge Scholl engaged as speaker at the Easter marches of the peace movement . In 1985 she took part in blockades in front of the American missile depot on Mutlanger Heide and was fined for it.

Publications

  • Inge Scholl: The white rose . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt / M. 1952
  • Collective punishment. News and messages from the family in Gestapo custody after the execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl . Fischer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-10-000409-3
  • Eva - Because you are with me, I am not alone . Direktverlag, Riedhausen, 1996, ISBN 3-925295-18-6

honors and awards

Memorial plaque in the foyer of the Inge-Aicher-Scholl-Haus (Geschwister-Scholl-School of the Center for the Physically Disabled Oberschwaben (KBZO) in Weingarten (Württemberg) )

literature

  • Christine Abele-Aicher (Ed.): The gentle violence. Memories of Inge Aicher-Scholl . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Ulm in Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-9121-8 .
  • Christine Hikel: Sophie's sister. Inge Scholl and the White Rose . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71718-1 . Sources and representations on contemporary history; Vol. 94. At the same time dissertation at Bielefeld University, 2011.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 10 f .
  • Winfried Suss:  Scholl, Inge. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 444 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Inge Aicher-Scholl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutschlandradio calendar sheet
  2. ↑ oberschwaben-portal.de
personal data
SURNAME Aicher-Scholl, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aicher-Scholl, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural worker and writer; Sister of the Scholl siblings
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingersheim - Altenmünster (now part of Crailsheim )
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1998
Place of death Leutkirch in the Allgäu