Robert Scholl was a
WürttembergWürttemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....
ian politician and father of
HansHans Fritz Scholl was a founding member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany.-Biography:...
and
Sophie SchollSophia 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...
. Scholl was a liberal and a critic of the
NaziNazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
regime. He also co-founded the
All-German People's PartyThe All-German People's Party, in German Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei was a political party in the Federal Republic of Germany. The party was founded on November 29, 1952 and ceased to exist in 1957...
after the war.
Scholl was born in the
Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
town of
MainhardtMainhardt is a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
on 13 April 1891. During
World War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, he met his future wife Magdalena when he was serving in the same hospital as her. The couple married shortly afterward and moved to
IngersheimIngersheim is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
. In 1920, they moved again to
ForchtenbergForchtenberg is a town in the district of Hohenlohekreis, northern Baden-Württemberg. It lies on the side of a partly fortified hill overlooking the Kocher valley where the Kupfer river flows into the Kocher. The name Forchtenberg is derived from "vor dem Berg" or "before the hill" in...
.