His mother was Johanna Hirsch, (b Mannheim, Germany, 23 May 1876 - d Ascona, Switzerland, 1938). Von Schulze-Gaevernitz had two sisters: Ruth Gaevernitz, a historian. And Margiana von Schulze-Gävernitz, who married entrepreneur and philanthropist Edmund Stinnes.
He became a crucial assistant of Allen Dulles in Europe and was awarded the United States. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1945 for his skillful negotiations in Ascona, Switzerland, for the surrender of a million Nazi forces in World World War II, with specific reference to Italy (Operation Sunrise).
He was the son of Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz, professor of Political Science at Freiburg University and a member of the Weimar parliament (b Breslau, Silesia, 25 July 1865 - d Krainsdorf, Silesia, 10 July 1943).
