Walter Ehrlich (16 May 1896 in Berlin – 26 December 1968 in Bad Ragaz, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland) was a German philosopher.
After that, he studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
In Berlin, Ehrlich attended lectures by professors Ernst Cassirer, Max Dessoir, Benno Erdmann, Alois Riehl, Friedrich Julius Schmidt and Ernst Troeltsch.
After February 1919, he began philosophical and literary studies as a regular student at the University of Heidelberg under Heinrich Maier,[1] Heinrich Rickert, Hans Driesch, Karl Jaspers, Max von Waldberg, Friedrich Gundolf (Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger), Friedrich Neumann and Leonardo Olschki (1885-1961).
Heinrich Maier (1867-1933), a philosopher who taught at the University of Heidelberg from 1918 to 1922, stimulated and encouraged Ehrlich with his doctoral dissertation, which was titled Der Freiheitsbegriff bei Kant und Schopenhauer (1920) (The Concept of Freedom in Kant and Schopenhauer).