Original: He was the second of four children of a Protestant headmaster of the secondary school at Aalen—Prof. Erwin Rommel the elder (1860–1913) and Helene von Luz, a daughter of a prominent local dignitary—who had two other sons, Karl and Gerhard, and a daughter, Helene.
Simplified: He was the second of four children of a Protestant headmaster of the secondary school at Aalen, Prof. Erwin Rommel the elder (1860–1913), and Helene von Luz, a daughter of a prominent local dignitary.