Jakob Schmid (Pedell)

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Jakob Schmid (February 1947)

Jakob Schmid (born July 25, 1886 in Traunstein ; † August 16, 1964 ) was a German pedellist , house fitter and lecture hall attendant at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). On February 18, 1943, he hired the siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl , members of the White Rose resistance group , when they were putting out leaflets against the Nazi regime in the university .

Schmid and the Scholl siblings

Memorial for the White Rose in front of the main building of the LMU , it represents the leaflets that were distributed

Schmid worked as a pedellist at the university from 1926 . He was a member of the SA since November 1, 1933 and a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 .

At about 11:15 a.m. on February 18, 1943, he noticed that the Scholl siblings were laying out leaflets in the atrium of the university and left them as they were about to leave the building. Schmid handed both of them to the office secretary Albert Scheithammer. Since the rector of the university, Walther Wüst , was not present at first, Schmid and Scheithammer took the siblings to the university's syndic , Ernst Haeffner, who finally handed them over to the Secret State Police (Gestapo).

As a result of the arrest of the Scholl siblings, they and other members of the White Rose were sentenced to death in show trials by the People's Court and three of them - Christoph Probst , Sophie Scholl and Hans Scholl - on the day the verdict was announced, February 22, 1943, in Stadelheim prison by the guillotine executed .

Schmid received a reward of 3,000 Reichsmarks for the arrest and was promoted from worker to clerk . At a thank-you ceremony organized by the University of Munich for successfully smashing student resistance, hundreds of students cheered Jakob Schmid, who received the Hitler salute standing with his outstretched arm.

post war period

Three days after the end of World War II , Schmid was arrested by the Americans on May 11, 1945. In one proceeding, the 10th Munich Arbitration Chamber , presided over by Judge Karl Mayer , classified him in 1946 as the “main offender” and sentenced him to five years in a labor camp . In addition, he lost his right to public remuneration and the right to exercise public office. Against that judgment he put twice unsuccessfully calling one to have "done duty" on the grounds that only his. The content of the leaflets did not interest him, but the distribution of leaflets in the university was prohibited. He was released early and his pension was restored in 1951.

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  1. ↑ a b c Sönke Zankel : From hero to main culprit - the man who arrested the Scholl siblings. (PDF file; 372 kB) In: Elisabeth Kraus (Hrsg.): The University of Munich in the Third Reich. Essays. Part I. P. 581ff.
  2. ^ A b Memorial lecture by Federal President Johannes Rau on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the execution of the members of the "White Rose" on January 30, 2003. In: bundespraesident.de . Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ^ Dietmar Suess : National Socialism: The Spy Next Door . In: The time . July 26, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pedell of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, introduced the siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1964