Christoph Probst
His father, Hermann Probst, a private scholar and Sanskrit researcher, fostered contacts with artists who were deemed by the Nazis to be "decadent".
After Hermann's first marriage with Karin Katharina Kleeblatt, Christoph's mother, broke up in 1919, he married Elise Jaffée, who was Jewish.
[2] Christoph's sister, Angelika, remembers that her brother was strongly critical of Nazi ideas that violated human dignity.
From the end of that month until mid-July that same year, Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the group's first four leaflets.
The leaflets were left in telephone books in public phone booths, mailed to professors and students, and taken by courier to other universities for distribution.
Christoph Probst came rather late into the White Rose since he did not belong to the same student corps as Hans Scholl, Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf, and he stayed for the most part in the background as, being married, he had to think of his family.
Probst belonged—along with the Scholl siblings, Graf, and Schmorell—to the innermost circle, which came to include also university professor Kurt Huber.
On 18 February 1943, Sophie and Hans Scholl went to the Ludwig Maximilian University to leave out flyers for the students to read.
The draft of a seventh pamphlet that had been written by Christoph Probst was found in the possession of Hans Scholl at the time of his arrest by the Gestapo.
While Sophie Scholl managed to get rid of incriminating evidence before being taken into custody, Hans attempted to destroy the draft leaflet by tearing it apart and swallowing it.
I have withheld this acknowledgment for so long because Probst's wife is currently confined to bed with puerperal fever following the birth of their third child.
[7]On 20 February 1943, Probst went to pick up his salary before travelling to see his wife Herta and his newly born daughter, Katja.
[8] While in the office to collect his salary, he was apprehended by the Gestapo, who asked him to change into street clothes before taking him to prison.
On 3 November 1999, Christoph Probst was included in a semi-official commemorative book published by the German Catholic bishops.
