Günther Schwerin

Günther Schwerin was born in Breslau (now Wroclav, Poland) in 1910, to Ernst Schwerin and Stefanie Schwerin née Ehrlich. He was a grandson of Nobel Laureate Paul Ehrlich. Günther Schwerin studied in Maidenhead, Berkshire County, England in 1927 and immigrated to the United States the following decade. After attending New York University School of Law 1942 - 1945, Schwerin was employed in London, England by the United States War Department as a Bombing Research Analyst. Günther Schwerin had a career in a New York City law firm and served as the executor of the estate of his maternal grandmother, Hedwig Pinkus Ehrlich. Schwerin devoted his life to recovery of restitution from the governments of Poland and Germany for his family’s lost property.

Hans Wolfgang Schwerin was born in Breslau in 1906 to Ernst Schwerin and Stefanie Schwerin née Ehrlich. He earned a law degree from Universität Breslau in 1937 and immigrated to the United States in the following decade with his parents and younger sibling, Günther. Schwerin’s vocation was writing; throughout his life, Hans Schwerin maintained relationships with literary figures and wrote poetry and works for live theatre. In 1939, a volume of his poetry, Irdische Heimat, was published under the pen name Wolfgang H. Syland. A theatre work, Vorstellung in drei Akten, was published in 1982.

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