Eli Heckscher
Heckscher was born in Stockholm, son of the Jewish Danish-born businessman Isidor Heckscher and his spouse Rosa Meyer, and completed his secondary education there in 1897. He studied at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University, completing his PhD in Uppsala in 1907. He was professor of Political economy and Statistics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1909 until 1919, when he exchanged that chair for a research professorship in economic history, finally retiring as emeritus professor in 1945. In 1929 Heckscher founded the Institute for Economic History Research.
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.