He was originally from southern Moravia, the son of an Austrian engineer and a Czech mother, and went to school in Prague before the family relocated to Nuremberg in Bavaria in 1938.
Ia berasal dari selatan Moravia, anak seorang insinyur Austria dan ibu dari ceko , dan pergi ke sekolah di Praha sebelum keluarganya pindah ke Nürnberg di Bavaria pada tahun 1938.