Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I rere a Goetze, me tōna whaea me tōna tuahine iti, i Bartenstein, e kiia nei ko Bartoszyce, i runga i te tereina whakamutunga i te 22 o Hanuere 1945 i te wā o te Whakakorenga o Prussia ki te Rāwhiti
He aha? I hoki rātau ki te kāinga o te whānau i Niederdünzebach. I haere a Gerhard ki te Kura Whakangungu, te Friedrich-Wilhelm Schule i Eschwege mai i te 1946-1949 i reira ia i whiwhi ai i tana tohu Abitur.