Since the apartment of the Herrs was destroyed by bombs in 1943, they lived two years in the community of Ewersbach in Hesse. In 1933, she attended primary school in Cologne-Mülheim after which she worked in a bakery. She herself was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. For him she wrote the song 'Papa', in which she thanked her father for her time she sang it in 1961 at his funeral.
Her father Robert Herr was a locomotive driver and was imprisoned for a long time because of his membership in the Communist Party later he was sent to a concentration camp. Trude Herr was born in the Cologne district of Kalk, grew up in the city's district of Mülheim and attended school there.
