OK, have been doing a bit more digging. Apparently it was my mother's grandfather who was the prof - at Dresden uni, his name was Rudolf. They...
He was Czech as I understand it and my grandmother was German. I guess he must have spoken German too as my grandmother certainly did not speak...
My grandfathers name was Rolf Hermann Erich Zink. He would have been born around 1900 and died in the UK in the late 1950s - I didn't know him. He...
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