young children  and then committed suicide. Early life Goebbels was born in  Rheydt , an industrial town south of  Mönchengladbach  on the edge of the Ruhr  district. His family were Catholics; his father was a factory clerk, his mother originally a farmhand. Goebbels had four siblings: Hans (1893–1947), Konrad (1895–1949), Elisabeth (1901–1915)