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Ernst Bloch was born in Ludwigshafen in 1885. His parents were Max Bloch, a railroad official, and his wife, Berta (nee Feitel). He studied philosophy in Munich and Wuerzburg, and worked as a private tutor and journalist in Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1913, he married Else von Stritzky. He lost his German citizenship in 1933 and immigrated to Switzerland, where he had also stayed during World War I. Between 1934 and 1938, he lived in Prague. In 1938, he immigrated to New York. In 1948, he returned to Germany and accepted a teaching position at the University of Leipzig. He left Leipzig shortly before the wall was built between East and West Berlin and accepted a professorship in Tuebingen. He died in Tuebingen in 1977.

Max Hirschler was born in Frankenthal in 1886. He studied medicine in Graz, Vienna, and Munich. During his residence at the Breslau University Hospital he met his future wife, Helene Riess, who was an intern there. They got married in 1915, while Max served as a medical doctor in World War I. The couple settled in Ludwigshafen, where his parents lived. Max opened a medical practice in 1919/1920, specializing in general surgery; Helene opened her own practice, specializing in pediatrics, in 1920. Their son Ernst Erich was born in 1924.

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