 Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Carl Frahm in the Free City of Lübeck (German Empire) on 18 December 1913.His mother was Martha Frahm (16 March 1894 – 3 August 1969) a single parent, who worked as a cashier for a department store.His father was an accountant from Hamburg named John Heinrich Möller (1887–1958) whom Brandt never met.