Background
He was born in Hamburg. His father, Rudolf Hess, was a sugar trader and his mother an opera singer.
He was born in Hamburg. His father, Rudolf Hess, was a sugar trader and his mother an opera singer.
With Hitler"s rise to power, the family moved to Prague, Vienna and Milan. In 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War he was in London, working for Austrian and German newspapers, and he was interned as an enemy alien. He later served in the British Army where he changed his name in case he was captured.
In London, where he died, he worked for The Tablet and as correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Presse and others