The author, ERHARD SCHULZ was born in 1933 in Elchniederung County, at that time a remote marshland in North-East Prussia, Germany. He graduated from high school in Lehrte, Lower Saxony and worked ...view moreThe author, ERHARD SCHULZ was born in 1933 in Elchniederung County, at that time a remote marshland in North-East Prussia, Germany. He graduated from high school in Lehrte, Lower Saxony and worked as a financial accountant for the companies Hanomag, Salzgitter-Chemie and Bahlsen’s Keksfabrik. He retired in 1995. In 2010 he died of pancreatic cancer.view less