Alphons Paquet was born in to the family of a deeply religious Baptist glovemaker and was forced to train in his father's profession.
Soon after, he became editor of the Düsseldorf-based cultural magazine Die Rheinlande and from 1902 onwards he was able to finance his studies with various jobs, which he completed in 1907 at the University of Jena with a dissertation in economic history.
[3] On October 18, 1910, he married the Frankfurt painter Marie Henriette Steinhausen and moved with her to Dresden- Hellerau, where Paquet now worked for the German Werkbund.
[2] Paquet became a supporter of the Weimar Republic and was deeply interested in the idea of a "Rhineland" renewal of Europe with Germany as a mediator between East and West.
Through this religious community, he maintained intensive contact with England and the US and received visits from foreign believers who wanted to get an idea of the situation in Germany.
Paquet, who had to witness the deportation of the Jews from Frankfurt - of whose murderous consequences he was aware - as a helpless observer, sank into deep dejection.