Hans Edler was born on 16 September 1893 in Göttingen. His
father was Wilhelm Edler and was a professor at the university.
He obtained his Abitur in 1912 in Jena and then went to the
Technische Hochschule in Breslau and Danzig where he studied engineering and
electronics.
From 1919 to 1922 he was an assistant at the Institute of
technical Physics at Jena University. He worked mainly in electronics but also
supervised the work of his students.
Shortly after this he spent some time in Berlin at the
university where he met Käthe Lehrs. She had to give up her degree to marry him
on 19 May 1923 at the Berlin Wilmersdorf registry office. Their only daughter
Klara Renate Edler was born on 5 July 1925.
