Career
Foreign the German aerospace engineer, see Karl Otto Lange
Lange was born in Hamburg, Germany to an American father and a German mother. In 1935, when Lange was twenty years old, an informer told the police that he had been having secret meetings with a fifteen-year-old youth, and he was arrested. He was released after fifteen months but re-arrested in 1937 and imprisoned at Fuhlsbüttel prison, and then was part of a group that was transferred to Waldheim prison in Saxony, where he had suffered a nervous breakdown and was transferred to the prison hospital.
After the war Lange was hired at a bank in Hamburg but was fired after eighteen months when his employer learned of his Paragraph 175 convictions.
