White Rose Foundation

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The White Rose Foundation eV is a registered non-profit association with the statutory task of remembering the resistance against the Nazi injustice state , to honor the protagonists of the White Rose and to promote moral courage, individual responsibility and democratic awareness today.

meaning

With the White Rose Memorial at the atrium of the LMU ( Ludwig Maximilians University ), with traveling exhibitions, historical-educational projects and thematically relevant events, the White Rose Foundation is an important player in the landscape of remembrance.

The traveling exhibition “The White Rose. The Resistance of Students Against Hitler ”is shown throughout Germany and internationally. It is available for presentations in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Czech, Latvian and Lithuanian.

founding

Memorial for the White Rose, in front of the Ludwig Maximilians University , Munich

In the USA , protests were made in 1985 against the visit of US President Ronald Reagan and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl to the military cemetery in Bitburg , where 43 members of the SS are also buried. The Jewish religious philosopher Michael Wyschogrod then initiated a demonstrative visit by an American delegation from the Jewish Congress to the graves of the members of the White Rose in Munich , supported by American civil rights activists and the state capital Munich. The White Rose Foundation was subsequently founded in Washington in 1987 to commemorate the German resistance during National Socialism in the USA .

On the German side, the White Rose Foundation eV was founded on June 30, 1987 by Inge Aicher-Scholl , Heinz Bollinger , Heiner Guter, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Annelise Knoop-Graf , Franz J. Müller and Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn founded. Franz J. Müller was its chairman until 2004. Munich, Hamburg, Ulm, Saarbrücken, Berlin, Freiburg, Stuttgart and later Gräfelfing support the work of the foundation ideally and financially as a “city community under the sign of the White Rose”. The office of the White Rose Foundation eV is located in the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich.

Literature on the history of the foundation

  • Hildegard Kronawitter: 25 years of the White Rose Foundation eV - a contribution to the history of memory. In: Bavarian State Center for Political Education: Insights and Perspectives, Issue 1/13, pp. 6-17.
  • Mathias Rösch: Memories and Recognition. Festschrift for Franz J. Müller with the contributions and a. by Klaus Hahnzog, Michael Wyschogrod and Britta Müller-Baltschun. Stamsried 2004, pp. 49-84

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ White Rose Foundation eV | White Rose Foundation. Accessed June 4, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ White Rose Foundation eV: Flyer "Traveling Exhibition". Retrieved October 29, 2018 .
  3. ^ Yannick Eibl: Hans Leipelt: Commemoration of a role model. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  4. ^ Traveling exhibition on the White Rose in Coburg. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Michael Wyschogrod: Initiatives in the run-up to the establishment of the White Rose Foundation . In: Mathias Rösch (Hrsg.): Erinnern und Erkennen . Verlag Ernst Vögel, Stamsried 2004, ISBN 3-89650-188-7 , p. 87-92 .
  6. ^ Organs of the White Rose Foundation eV | White Rose Foundation eV In: White Rose Foundation eV ( weisse-rose-stiftung.de [accessed on June 4, 2018]).