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Alexander Schmorell was born in s-a născut în Orenburg, RussiaRusia, on pe [[September 16septembrie]], 1917 ([[September 3septembrie]] on the pe [[Julian Calendarcalendarul iulian|stil vechi]]), and was și a fost [[baptism|baptisedbotez]] in the at în [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox ChurchBiserica Ortodoxă Rusă]]. His fatherTatăl său, Hugo Schmorell, a doctor, was Germana fost german, although he had been born in Russiadeși a fost născut în Rusia și a locuit acolo cea mai mare parte a vieții, and had lived there most of his life, except for cu excepția perioadei în care a time when he studied medicine in Germanystudiat medicina în Germania. His motherMama sa, Nataliya VvedenskayaNatalia Vedenskaia, was Russiana fost rusoaică, and was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox fost fiica unui [[priestpreot]]ortodox rus. When Când Alexander was around avea în jur de un an, mama sa a year old, his mother died of typhusmurit de tifos. His father remarried in Tatăl său s-a recăsătorit în 1920. The woman whom he marriedFemeia cu care s-a căsătorit, Elisabeth Hoffman, was also Germana fost de asemenea germană, butdar, like ca și Hugo Schmorell, she had grown up in Russiaa fost crescută în Rusia.

Hugo Schmorell and his family left Russia in și familia sa au părăsit Rusia în 1921 in order to flee the Bolsheviksîn scopul de a scăpa de bolșevici. With them came Feodosiya Cu ei s-a dus Feodosia Lapschina, bona lui Alexander's nanny, under the pretense that she was the widow of sub pretextul că ea a fost văduva fratelui lui Hugo Schmorell's brother. (For this reasonDin acest motiv, she was buried with the name ea a fost înmormântată cu numele Franziska Schmorell.) The family settled in Munich, and soon afterward two childrenFamilia s-a stabilit în München și curând după aceea a născut doi copii, Erich and Natascha, were borne of this unionNatașa.

Although the family was now in GermanyDeși familia se afla deja în Germania, the language of the house remained Russianlimba casei a rămas rusa. In factÎn fapt, even with the many years she stayed in Germanydeși a locuit mulți ani în Germania, Feodosiya Feodosia Lapschina never learned very much Germanniciodată n-a învățat foarte multă germană. Elisabeth Schmorell was era [[Roman Catholic ChurchBiserica Romano-Catolică|Roman Catholicromano-catolică]], as were după cum erau și frații lui Alexander's siblings, but in large part due to Feodosiya dar în mare parte datorită influenței Feodosiei Lapschina's influence, Alexander remained Orthodoxa rămas ortodox, and his stepmother made it possible for him to attend Orthodox religion classes in Munichiar mama sa vitregă a făcut posibil ca el să frecventeze lecțiile de religie ortodoxă din München.

In the Nazi mindsetÎn mentalitatea nazistă, the Slavs belonged to the great horde of slavii aparțin marii hoarde a ''untermenschensuboamenilor'', that isadică, people who supposedly were barely humanoameni despre care se presupune că sunt în foarte mică măsură umani. This was Aceasta a mindset that fost concepția pe care Alexander could never acceptniciodată n-ar fi putut-o accepta. At one pointO perioadă de timp, he had been part of the a fost parte a Tineretului Scharnhorst Youth, but once they became part of the dar odată ce această organizație a devenit parte a Tineretului Hitler Youth (''Hitler Jugend''), he eventually stopped attendinga încetat s-o mai frecventeze.

When he was to be sworn in to military service, he nearly had a breakdown, and told his commanding officer that he could not do it; he could not swear absolute loyalty to Adolf Hitler. He asked to be released from military duty. He was not released, yet amazingly, there were also no repercussions for his refusal to take the oath. Before getting involved with the White Rose, he served in Czechoslovakia and in France. He began his university study in Hamburg in 1939, but by the fall of 1940 he was studying closer to home at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich. It is around this time that he met Hans Scholl, with whom Alexander would found the White Rose.