William S. Heckscher
From 1918 to 1921, the family lived in the Netherlands while Heckscher's father served as the Weimar Republic's ambassador to The Hague; there, Heckscher enrolled at the Nederlandsch Lyceum. Heckscher pursued his interests in history and Flemish art by spending his off hours studying at the Dutch Royal Library, the Mauritshuis and the Kröller-Müller Museum, but was dismissed from the Lyceum in 1920 for "lack of scholarly potential". After the family returned to Hamburg, Heckscher attended the city's Kunstgewerbeschule, now the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but failed a class in ceramics.
Hadayatullah Hübsch
Born into a middle-class Christian family, Paul-Gerhard Hübsch attended the Paul-Gerhardt-school in Laubach (Oberhessen), later going on to study at the Laubach-Kolleg. He was not interested in school but developed a liking for philosophy and poetry. Between 1965 and 1967, he was a member of the Hessian anti-war committee Ostermarschs and became active in radical left-wing politics, particularly in initiating anti-Vietnam war demonstrations. After completing his "Abitur", Hübsch refused military service and during the German student movement of the APO, he was affiliated with, inter alia, the Kommune 1. During this period, he also experimented with a number of drugs, especially with LSD. He was also the co-founder of the leftist organisation Club Voltaire in Frankfurt and opened the first alternative bookstore in Germany, the "Heidi Loves You" shop in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.