Georg Zundel spent his childhood and youth on his parents' estate, the "Berghof" near Tübingen, and on the family farm in Haisterkirch, Bad Waldsee.

At the same time, Zundel was confronted at a young age by an environment marked by political and economic tensions through his parental home.

His father Georg Friedrich Zundel was married in his first marriage to the women's rights activist Clara Zetkin.

Due to the war, Georg Zundel was not able to graduate from high school until 1952, whereupon he began studies in physics at Universität München.

Depending on the bond strength of the acceptor and donor side, such bridges show up in the infrared spectrum over several hundred wavenumbers (3500 to under 650 cm−1) or between wavelengths of 2.7 and over 10 micrometers a continuous absorption.

It is attributed to the fact that the bridging protons, caused by the easy polarizability of the charge between the donor and acceptor side, cover a broad spectrum of absorption frequencies in the fluctuating environment in the infrared wavelength range.

Today, the Berghof group of companies comprises six subsidiaries with locations in Eningen, Tübingen, Ravensburg, Mühlhausen, Türkenfeld as well as Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.

Experiments were carried out with the introduction of North American Douglas firs, which also produce growth at altitudes above the existing tree line.

Zundel modernized the "St. Georgshof" in Haisterkirch near Bad Waldsee, an arable and dairy farm that had now been in the family for over eighty years.

In his childhood and youth, he had been directly confronted with the horrors of war and the National Socialist dictatorship, which instilled in him the search for ways to resolve conflicts without violence.

The decisive milestone of his commitment, however, was the establishment and sustained support of the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research in 1971, which was chaired by Dieter Senghaas for thirty years.

His commitment to peace was recognized in 2003 under Johannes Rau with the award of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.