Hans Pfeiffer was born on February 22, 1925 in Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Swidnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for
Marx und Engels - Stationen ihres Lebens (1978),
Karl Marks. Molodye gody (1980) and
Scharnhorst (1978). He died on September 27, 1998 in Wurzen, Saxony, Germany.