 In the first four years of their marriage, the Arendts lived in Berlin, where they were supporters of the socialist journal "Sozialistische Monatshefte".At the time of Hannah's birth, Paul Arendt was employed by an electrical engineering firm in Linden, and they lived in a frame house on the market square (Marktplatz).The Arendt family moved back to Königsberg in 1909, because of Paul's deteriorating health.