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In 1922, at the age of 18, Odeman met his first love, architecture student Martin Ulrich
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forbidding him from carrying on certain professions, and he was not permitted to appear in public. He also remained under police surveillance.
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his younger partner. After the adoption, Nöring used the name Günter Odeman-Nöring.
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