Prof. Dr. Hermann Albert Schumacher

cf. also: http://www.heisenbergfamily.org/Family-tree/Schumacher-tree/Schumac...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schumacher_%28National%C3%B6ko...

The Wisdom of E. F. Schumacher, Page 4

" . . . The paternal grandfather of Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (or Fritz as his family and friends called him) had once been the German Ambassador in Bogota, Columbia and later the German Consul in New York.

Fritz’s father, Hermann, thus spent part of his youth abroad before returning to Germany. After completing his education, he taught at several universities, including Columbia University, where he spent a year as an exchange professor.

" . . . When he was already over forty, he married a much younger woman, Edith Zitelmann. Before he had left for Asia, she had already given birth to twins, a boy and a girl named after their parents, and Fritz would be born only about a year later in 1911. By then Fritz’s father was back at Bonn University, where he was a distinguished economics professor. In his relations with his wife and children, Hermann was authoritarian and dogmatic. Less so was Hermann’s brother, Fritz, after whom young Fritz had been named. This uncle whom his nephew admired was an expert on the great German writer Goethe (1749-1832) . . . "