Willi Graf

Willi Graf ( born January 2, 1918 in Euskirchen Cake Home, † October 12, 1943 in Munich Stadelheim ) was a member of the resistance group White Rose.

Life

Graf's father was a commercial director, he had two sisters. The family moved in 1922 to Saarbrücken, where he attended the Ludwigsgymnasium after primary school. Earl was an altar boy at the Basilica of St. Johann in Saarbrücken.

He soon joined the Catholic Association for boys of secondary schools, the federal government Neudeutschland ( ND). This was banned after the seizure of power by the National Socialists. In 1934, he joined the Order of horror, a forbidden Youth League, which had been formed on the basis of the prohibition of many bündischer youth associations. After graduating from the Ludwigsgymnasium Saarbrücken 1937 Graf graduated from April to October 1937 in Dillingen an der Saar to the Reich Labor Service. and then began to study medicine in Bonn. In 1938 he was imprisoned with other members of the Gray Order and charged with bündischer machinations. 1940-1942, Count as a medic at various military deployments in part. In 1942 he was a member of the 2nd Company of the medical students in Munich with the White Rose in contact. Earl was an active member of the resistance group.

On February 18, 1943 Earl was arrested along with his sister Anneliese in Munich. He was sentenced on 19 April 1943 for treason, military morale and aiding the enemy, the People's Court, chaired by Roland Freislers to death. The Gestapo tried for months to squeeze the name of it. Graf was beheaded on 12 October 1943 at the Stadel prison home with the guillotine and buried in the cemetery at Perlacher Forest. In 1946 his remains were transferred to Saarbrücken and was buried on 4 November at the old cemetery of St. John.

Honors

  • After his name several schools have been named in Germany, including the Willi -Graf -Gymnasium in Munich,
  • The Willi -Graf -Gymnasium in Berlin light field,
  • Willi -Graf -Realschule in Euskirchen
  • Willi -Graf -Realschule in Willich,
  • The Willi -Graf- Gymnasium or Realschule in Saarbrücken,
  • Willi -Graf- primary school in Koblenz- Neuendorf,
  • Willi -Graf- school in St. Ingbert

After the Second World War, employed his sister, Anneliese Knoop - Graf, who knew nothing until his arrest from his job in the White Rose, intense with his life, his works, and his motives and evaluated, inter alia, his diaries. For her lifelong preoccupation with the resistance against the Nazis got Knoop -Graf on 26 April 2006 an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Karlsruhe awarded.

Dillingen, Saarland High treason Wehrkraftzersetzung People's Court (Germany) Lichterfelde (Berlin) Michael Verhoeven Marc Rothemund Integrated Authority File
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