Peter’s father, Richard Huttenlocher, was born in 1900 in Alte Weinsteige, in the hilly vineyards near Stuttgart. Richard’s father, Johann Huttenlocher, was a policeman in Stuttgart. Richard’s mother, Elisabethe, “Oma” Huttenlocher (family name Gaupp), was a doting mother and ran a traditional home, with a knack for German baking that she shared with her grandson Peter. Both Richard and his older brother Friedrich (Uncle Fritz) studied the sciences in the Gymnasium (high school), but their studies were interrupted by the First World War. Fritz was stationed at the western front from 1914 to 1918, where he was wounded and was recognized with an Iron Cross from the Prussian government. Richard had only a brief stint as a young soldier, toward the end of the war. After the war, they both returned to live at the family home. Richard studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and Fritz studied geography/geology at the University of Tübingen. They both married young. Fritz married his wife Hannah, a traditional woman, in 1920, and continued to work at the University of Tübingen as a lecturer and then professor.