Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An haifi Lewald a 1860; mahaifiyarsa ita ce marubucin Yahudawa Fanny Lewald. Lewald ya zama ma'aikacin gwamnati a Prussia a shekara ta 1885, kuma ya zama wakilin Kwamishinan Reich a shekara ta 1903. A cikin wannan rawar, Lewald ya halarci
1904 World Fair (wanda aka gudanar tare da Wasannin Olympics), inda ya saba da Kaiser Wilhelm II kan ko Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, wanda shi ne Shugaban, ya kamata ya zama mai zaman kansa a siyasa. Bayan Berlin ta sami damar gudanar da Wasannin Olympics na 1916 (wanda daga baya aka soke shi saboda barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya), Lewald ya ƙarfafa Reich na Jamus don saka hannun jari a cikin wasannin, yana mai jayayya cewa ana iya kwatanta shi da Nunin Kasuwancin Duniya. A ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na I, Lewald yana da kyakkyawar alaƙa a matsayin babban ma'aikacin gwamnati na Imperial Jamus wanda shi da kansa ya rubuta jawabin rabuwa da gwamnatin mulkin mallaka ta ƙarshe. A lokacin Kapp Putsch Lewald shi ne mai kula da Gwamnati yayin da dukkan ministocin suka bar Berlin. Ya ƙi a tilasta shi da bindiga don samar da kudaden gwamnati ga sojoji masu tawaye. Lewald, mai ra'ayin mazan jiya, yana samun matsaloli da yawa tare da gwamnatocin Social Democratic kuma daga karshe ya yi ritaya daga Ma'aikatar Gwamnati a 1923, amma ya ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin mukamai fiye da goma na girmamawa, misali a matsayin mai kula da musayar daliban Jamus na kasa da kasa, kwamiti na manyan gidajen tarihi da Kwamitin Olympic na kasa; ya kasance mataimakin Sakataren Gwamnati. A shekara ta 1935, Lewald ya ba da shawarar cewa a ba Pierre de Coubertin kyautar Nobel.