Hermann Unger

[2] Unger attended the Gymnasium St. Augustine and studied German, archaeology, musicology and classical philology at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig and Munich .

[5] In 1910, he received his doctorate from Otto Crusius[4] in Munich with a thesis on the use of the dactylic hexameter in the ancient Greek comedy.

[5] After that, Unger was transferred to the theatres of war of the Ottoman Empire and served in Aleppo and Constantinople.

[2] In 1919 Unger married the widow of the staff doctor Alexander Burger, Leonie née Debüser (1894-1970).

[3] In January 1949, the denazification main committee of the City of Cologne classified Unger in category IV (hanger-on) without blocking accounts and assets.

Only after a letter addressed directly to the Minister of Culture Paul Luchtenberg at the end of 1957 did the latter decide to confer the order, which, however, only took place shortly before Unger's death by Luchtenberg's predecessor and successor Werner Schütz on "December 5, 1958 at about 7:00 p.m." in Unger's apartment without informing the press.