Joe Julius Isaak Philipp was born in 1916 in Nürnberg. Joe Julius Isaak Philipp's father was Julius Heydecker and his mother was Marianne Rath. His paternal grandfather was Julius Heydecker and his paternal grandmother is Julie Steppan. He had a sister named Marianne. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 81 in 1997 in Wien, Österreich.