Dietrich's mother was from a well-to-do Berlin family who owned a clockmaking firm and her father was a police lieutenant who died in 1907.[4] His best friend Eduard von Losch, an aristocrat first lieutenant in the Grenadiers, courted Wilhelmina and married her in 1916, but he died soon after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I.[5] Eduard von Losch never officially adopted the Die