Complex sentence: Selmayr was born to a prominent bourgeois Catholic family from Bavaria, and is a grandson of Brigadier General Josef Selmayr, the first Director of the West German Military Counterintelligence Service from 1955.
Split into simpler sentences: Selmayr was born to a prominent bourgeois Catholic family from Bavaria. He is a grandson of Brigadier General Josef Selmayr, the first Director of the West German Military Counterintelligence Service from 1955.