Elisabeth Noelle was born to Ernst and Eve Noelle in 1916 in Dahlem, a suburb of Berlin. First Elisabeth went to several schools in Berlin and then switched to the prestigious Salem Castle School, which she also left one year later. She earned her Abitur in 1935 in Göttingen and then studied philosophy, history, journalism, and American studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, and the Königsberg Albertina University. When she visited Obersalzberg on 06-13-1937 with 23 other students, she by chance had an encounter with Adolf Hitler, which she later called "one of the most intensive and strangest experiences in her life". As can be read in a newspaper article in the National Socialist student newspaper "Die Bewegung", a group of ANSt students travelled to the Obersalzberg to see Hitler and felt lucky when they were actually received and even invited for coffee. The doctoral student Petra Umlauf also came to this conclusion in her dissertation “Die Studentinnen der Universität München 1926 to 1945”. The group photo shows an enthusiastic and friendly-looking Elisabeth Noelle directly behind Adolf Hitler.[https://archive.org/details/elisabeth-noelle-neumann-and-adolf-hitler_202008/page/n3/mode/2up] She stayed in the US from 1937 to 1938 and studied at the University of Missouri. There she was registered as a "special student". Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann claimed countless times that she studied journalism for one year. But "special students" were not admitted to the Schools of Journalism, Law, or Medicine.