Hans Scholl was the son of the mayor Robert Scholl (1891-1973) and his wife Magdalene Scholl (1881-1958). The family moved Forchtenberg in 1929. Hans went to the high school and joined the Nazi Party (the National Socialist Worker Party). A year later he got into the Hitler Youth and took a line position. In the army Hans did not get on well. He was hungry and not enough to drink. In 1935 he joined the Nazi party