Biography
Gerhard Loewenberg was born in Berlin, Germany, on October 2,1928, to Walter and Annemarie (Cassirer) Loewenberg, both physicians. When the Nuremberg Laws deprived the family of citizenship although Walter was a decorated WWI veteran who had served as a medic throughout the war, the family, including his younger sister Marianne, emigrated to New York in 1936. Loewenberg graduated from The Bronx High School of Science in 1945 and continued his education at Cornell University where he earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in government.