Marie-Luise Jahn

Marie-Luise Jahn was a German physician who lived from 1918 to 2010 and took part in the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance movement during the Second World War. Born in East Prussia, she began studying chemistry at the University of Munich in 1940, where she became a close friend of Hans Conrad Leipelt. After the Scholl siblings and Christoph Probst were imprisoned she helped continue distributing their leaflets and collected money for the widow of Kurt Huber. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sentenced to twelve years in prison in 1944, serving about a year and a half before the war ended. She then studied medicine at Tubingen and worked as a physician in Bad Tolz in Bavaria, and in 1987 she was a founding member of the White Rose Foundation.