他于1927年10月16日出生在但泽，父亲是德国人，母亲是卡舒比人，这是一个斯拉夫民族，有自己的语言和传统。
He was born in Danzig on Oct. 16 , 1927 , to a German father and a mother who was a Kashubian , a Slavic ethnic group with its own language and traditions .
卡舒比人