Harald Dohrn was born in Naples, where his father, the marine biologist Anton Dohrn, had founded a zoological institute (known today as Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn).
Harald Dohrn was an estate owner and had a physiotherapy practice in Bad Wiessee on the Tegernsee in Bavaria. He was the father-in-law of Christoph Probst and brother-in-law of Hans Quecke. He was against the National Socialist regime and sympathized with the ideals of the White Rose resistance group. He became known to officials and was arrested along with the students in 1943. Due to their silence about any contact with him he was eventually freed for lack of evidence.
On April 28, 1945, near the end of the war, he and Hans Quecke heard together the radio call for participation "Freiheitsaktion Bayern" (Action Free Bavaria), a movement wanting among other things to avoid the costly and needless defense of Munich, such as destroying all the bridges. They were overheard expressing their joy to this event, were promptly arrested and on April 29th summarily shot, along with 150 other innocent citizens, as the American army was approaching Munich. Their bodies were left lying in the Perlach Forest and Dohrn and Quecke were two of a very few whose bodies could later be identified. So it was this fate that determined they would be buried nearby in the same cemetery where most of the White Rose victims were laid to rest.
(Sources: Wikipedia, www.nikolaus-gross.com - home page of the Nikolaus Groß Evening School in Essen, and "Letzte Heimat, Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784-1984", by Erich Scheibmayr)
Harald Dohrn was an estate owner and had a physiotherapy practice in Bad Wiessee on the Tegernsee in Bavaria. He was the father-in-law of Christoph Probst and brother-in-law of Hans Quecke. He was against the National Socialist regime and sympathized with the ideals of the White Rose resistance group. He became known to officials and was arrested along with the students in 1943. Due to their silence about any contact with him he was eventually freed for lack of evidence.
On April 28, 1945, near the end of the war, he and Hans Quecke heard together the radio call for participation "Freiheitsaktion Bayern" (Action Free Bavaria), a movement wanting among other things to avoid the costly and needless defense of Munich, such as destroying all the bridges. They were overheard expressing their joy to this event, were promptly arrested and on April 29th summarily shot, along with 150 other innocent citizens, as the American army was approaching Munich. Their bodies were left lying in the Perlach Forest and Dohrn and Quecke were two of a very few whose bodies could later be identified. So it was this fate that determined they would be buried nearby in the same cemetery where most of the White Rose victims were laid to rest.
(Sources: Wikipedia, www.nikolaus-gross.com - home page of the Nikolaus Groß Evening School in Essen, and "Letzte Heimat, Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784-1984", by Erich Scheibmayr)
Harald Dohrn was born in Naples, where his father, the marine biologist Anton Dohrn, had founded a zoological institute (known today as Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn).
Harald Dohrn was an estate owner and had a physiotherapy practice in Bad Wiessee on the Tegernsee in Bavaria. He was the father-in-law of Christoph Probst and brother-in-law of Hans Quecke. He was against the National Socialist regime and sympathized with the ideals of the White Rose resistance group. He became known to officials and was arrested along with the students in 1943. Due to their silence about any contact with him he was eventually freed for lack of evidence.
On April 28, 1945, near the end of the war, he and Hans Quecke heard together the radio call for participation "Freiheitsaktion Bayern" (Action Free Bavaria), a movement wanting among other things to avoid the costly and needless defense of Munich, such as destroying all the bridges. They were overheard expressing their joy to this event, were promptly arrested and on April 29th summarily shot, along with 150 other innocent citizens, as the American army was approaching Munich. Their bodies were left lying in the Perlach Forest and Dohrn and Quecke were two of a very few whose bodies could later be identified. So it was this fate that determined they would be buried nearby in the same cemetery where most of the White Rose victims were laid to rest.
(Sources: Wikipedia, www.nikolaus-gross.com - home page of the Nikolaus Groß Evening School in Essen, and "Letzte Heimat, Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784-1984", by Erich Scheibmayr)
Harald Dohrn was an estate owner and had a physiotherapy practice in Bad Wiessee on the Tegernsee in Bavaria. He was the father-in-law of Christoph Probst and brother-in-law of Hans Quecke. He was against the National Socialist regime and sympathized with the ideals of the White Rose resistance group. He became known to officials and was arrested along with the students in 1943. Due to their silence about any contact with him he was eventually freed for lack of evidence.
On April 28, 1945, near the end of the war, he and Hans Quecke heard together the radio call for participation "Freiheitsaktion Bayern" (Action Free Bavaria), a movement wanting among other things to avoid the costly and needless defense of Munich, such as destroying all the bridges. They were overheard expressing their joy to this event, were promptly arrested and on April 29th summarily shot, along with 150 other innocent citizens, as the American army was approaching Munich. Their bodies were left lying in the Perlach Forest and Dohrn and Quecke were two of a very few whose bodies could later be identified. So it was this fate that determined they would be buried nearby in the same cemetery where most of the White Rose victims were laid to rest.
(Sources: Wikipedia, www.nikolaus-gross.com - home page of the Nikolaus Groß Evening School in Essen, and "Letzte Heimat, Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784-1984", by Erich Scheibmayr)
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