William S. Heckscher
In 1932–1933, Heckscher lived in New York where he worked as Panofsky's assistant. During this time, he enrolled in the Graduate Department of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University to study American art history. Heckscher returned to Germany to continue his studies in 1934. He and his mother were detained by the Gestapo and interrogated for ten days after being accused of having pacifist connections.
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.