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Campus Weiße Rose Ayer Lazarettstraße B M a Malerstraße - 5 D Ia- 6 R Ma R 7 Ha a Ge Tr ebbachstr. Weiher r. w Denkstätte. Lei Am Widerstand Rebhang Campus WeißeFugelst Rose Weingarten Torkelweg Weinbergstraße Leibn Eugen-Bolz-Weg tr. itz str. ugs 1 Doggenriedstraße Campus E Weiße Rose (bisher Briachstraße) D Wilhelm-Braun-Str. Fug -Str. elstr. 2 3 C1 C2 4 Campus Weiße Rose ayer Lazarettstraße B M A Malerstraße - 5 d ia- 6 r Ma r 7 ha a ge tr. 9 8 ic Eberh nr 10 11 R ds Wil ie 12 Wer ein dazu geeignetes Aufnahmegerät deneggstr. auf den folgenden QR-Code richtet, Malerstraße erhält weitere Information zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten. Schwanenweiher A Geschwister Scholl B Kurt Huber C1 Willi Graf C2 Hans Conrad Leipelt D Christoph Probst E Alexander Schmorell in us - 1 Eugen-Bolz 2 Alfred Delp 3 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4 Edith Stein 5 Georg Elser 6 Fridolin Endrasz St . r. tr S neggstr. r Hölde wissenschaftliches fegge rlin 7 Paul Grüninger 8 Hans David Elkan o 9 lHaus Ummenwinkel 10 Franz Klauser 11 Hermann Levinger 12 Naphtali Berlinger W Wilde Zentrum st Schi r. ig Der „Campus Weiße Rose“ – inzwischen pl e . te zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten erweitert – ist mit weiteren 14 Häusern verbunden, die Menschen des Wider- standes gegen die NS-Gewaltherrschaft gewidmet sind: sogenannten „Widmungs- häusern“. Die meisten dieser Häuser sind „Studierendenwohnheime“, andere Schulen und Häuser von Bildung und Ausbildung: alle mit dem Lebensbereich junger Men- schen verknüpft, die einmal die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft zu verantworten haben. Hier finden Sie weitere Informationen zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten Stele an der früheren Argonnenkaserne Dort gibt es die Geschwister-Scholl-Schule des Körperbehindertenzentrums Oberschwaben und fünf nach Menschen des Widerstandes benannte Straßen. Ihr Standort Stele am Campus Weiße Rose Hier in der Nähe sind fünf Wege nach den Menschen des Widerstandes der Weißen Rose benannt. Denkstätte Widerstand Campus Weiße Rose Weingarten Hans Scholl, 1918 – 1943 Sophie Scholl, 1921 – 1943 Kurt Huber, 1893 – 1943 Christoph Probst, 1919 –1943 Alexander Schmorell, 1919 –1943 Willi Graf, 1918 –1943 Die Widerstandsgruppe der Weißen Rose Kurz nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg verneigte sich Winston Churchill in seiner Züricher Rede vor den Menschen der Weißen Rose Hans Conrad Leipelt, 1921 –1945 als dem edelsten Widerstand, den es in Deutschland gegen die Gewaltherrschaft der Nazis gab. Viele Schulen in Deutsch- land tragen inzwischen die Namen von Angehörigen der Weiße Rose Gruppe. Damit sollen vor allem junge Menschen daran erinnert werden, welch persön- licher Mut und Opferbereitschaft es erfordern kann, für moralische Überzeu- gungen und sein Gewissen einzustehen. Auch in Weingarten wurde dies auf- gegriffen und neben bereits erfolgten Namensgebungen am 9. November 2015 ein Studierendenwohnheim eröffnet, das allen Ermordeten der Weißen Rose Gruppe gewidmet ist und ihnen Dank und Ehre erweist. Und auch die 70 Studentinnen und Studenten aus der sowjetischen Besatzungszone und frühen DDR, die ihren Widerstand im Geist der Weißen Rose gegen die Anfänge einer neuen Diktatur mit ihrem Leben bezahlen mussten, sollen damit geehrt werden. Hier finden Sie weitere Informationen zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten Stele an der früheren Argonnenkaserne Ihr Standort Stele am Campus Weiße Rose Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten Wer ein dazu geeignetes Aufnahmegerät auf den folgenden QR-Code richtet, erhält weitere Information zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten. Georg Elser Reinhold Frank Maximilian Kolbe Gertrud Luckner Hans und Sophie Bischof Sproll 1903 – 1945 1896 – 1945 1894 – 1941 1900 – 1995 Scholl, 1918 -1943 1870 – 1949 1921 -1943 Die Namensgeber der Straßen und der Schule im Bereich der früheren Argonnenkaserne Als die frühere Argonnenkaserne ab Anfang 2000 zu Wohn-, Schul- und Gewerbegebieten umgewandelt wurde, benannte die Stadt neue Straßen in diesem Gebiet nach Menschen, die gegen die NS-Gewaltherrschaft Widerstand leisteten. Hier finden Sie weitere Informationen zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten Stele an der früheren Argonnenkaserne Ihr Standort Stele am Campus Weiße Rose Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten Eugen Bolz Willi Graf Kurt Huber Hans Conrad Leipelt Christoph Probst Alexander Schmorell 1881 – 1945 1918 – 1943 1893 – 1943 1921 – 1945 1919 – 1943 1917 – 1943 Menschen des Widerstands, an die Orte und Wege in Weingarten erinnern Öffentliche Wege in der Oberstadt: Eugen-Bolz-Weg Willi-Graf-Weg Kurt-Huber-Weg Hans-Conrad-Leipelt-Weg Christoph-Probst-Weg Alexander-Schmorell-Weg Hier finden Sie weitere Informationen zur Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten Ihr Standort Stele an der früheren Argonnenkaserne In Ravensburg und Aulendorf ist die Edith-Stein-Berufsschule mit der Denkstätte Widerstand Weingarten und dem Campus Weiße Rose verbunden. Stele am Campus Weiße Rose.
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