Memorial Weiße Rose

This building is a former bookshop and was during the Second World War an important meeting point for the German Weiße Rose (White Rose resistance-group.

Many members of this group were murdered by the Nazis.

The text on the plaque reads:
Meeting place of Hamburg unit of the "White Rose"

The bookshop in this building was a meeting place for opponents of the Nazi regime during the Second World War, under the leadership of Reinhold Meyer, a student and the son of the bookshop owner.

This resistance group distributed leaflets of the "White Rose" movement from Munich. About 30 members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo at the end of 1943. The following members died as a result of inhuman conditions of internment, or were executed: Frederik Geussenhainer, Elisabeth Lange, Dr. Kurt Ledien, Hans Leipelt, Dr. Katharina Leipelt, Reinhold Meyer, Margarethe Mrosek and Margarethe Rothe.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Koos Winkelman