- Father of Meret Becker and Ben Becker, father-in-law of Alexander Hacke and Anne Seidel, son-in-law of Claire Schlichting, brother-in-law of Jonny Buchardt.
- As his father, an army officer, died in 1943, he was raised by his grand-parents.
- Attended acting lessons at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich from 1956 and 1958.
- Member and political activist of the German trade union ver.di.
- Has three children with his second wife Sylvia Wempner: Max, Emil and their adopted son Anton.
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