Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber was born 10 August 1914 at Oppershausen in the region of Thüringen.
A typical valley village set in the pink Plateau Lorraine sandstone, Frohmuhl, like many villages in north-western Alsace, is cut in two by the railway line connecting Strasbourg and Sarreguemines and by the River Eichel.