Marie-Luise Jahn was a German physician and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose

White Rose

The White Rose was a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor...

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Jahn was born in Sandlack, East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...

 (today Sędławki, Poland), where she grew up. From 1934 to 1937 she attended school in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and began her studies in chemistry at the University of Munich in 1940. There Jahn became a close friend of Hans Conrad Leipelt

Hans Conrad Leipelt

Hans Conrad Leipelt was a member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany.Leipelt was born in Vienna. His father was a graduate in civil engineering, and his mother a chemist from a Christian family with Jewish roots...

 and a member of the White Rose

White Rose

The White Rose was a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor...

 resistance group. After Hans

Hans Scholl

Hans Fritz Scholl was a founding member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany.-Biography:...

 and Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans...

 and Christoph Probst

Christoph Probst

Christoph Hermann Probst was a German student of medicine and a member of the White Rose resistance group.-White Rose:...

had been imprisoned she continued to publish the Scholl leaflets and collected money to aid the widow of Kurt Huber

Kurt Huber

Kurt Huber was a member of the White Rose group, which carried out resistance against Nazi Germany.-Early life:...

. In October 1943 she was also arrested by the Gestapo

Gestapo

The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by the Volksgerichtshof in 1944.

After her liberation she studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and worked as a physician in Bad Tölz

Bad Tölz

Bad Tölz is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and administrative center of the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen.- History :Since the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the Ice Age, archaeology has shown continuous occupation of the site of Bad Tölz...

. In 1987 she was a founding member of the White Rose Foundation and member of the executive board until 2002.