Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in Detroit, Michigan, as the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry (Fritz Hans) Ballmer, a manager at the Ford Motor Company. [1] [14] Frederic (1923–2000) was from Zuchwil, Switzerland, and arrived in the United States in 1948.[citation needed] He is Jewish.Steve's mother was the daughter of Samuel Dworkin, a Russian Jew who fled to ...