I whanau a Graf ki Berg i te Kīngitanga o Bavaria, kei roto i te whenua ataahua huri noa i te roto o Starnberg e tata ana ki Munich. Ko ia te tamaiti tuaiwa o te kaihanga keke Max Graf me tana wahine a Therese (née Heimrath), he tamahine a te kaiahuwhenua. Mai i te 1900 ka haere ia ki te kura kawanatanga i Aufkirchen, i te taone o Berg. I muri i te matenga o tona papa i te tau 1906, i ako ia i te hokohoko o te kaihanga keke me te mahi mo tona tuakana a Max, nana nei i tango te kaihanga keke a to raua papa.
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