Ludwig Marian Kasner | |
|---|---|
 Kaźmierczak in Polish Blue Army uniform, with an unknown woman | |
| Born | Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak October 17, 1896 |
| Died | February 3, 1959 (aged 62) |
| Spouse | Marie Margarete Pörschke (1905 - 1986) |
| Children | Horst Kasner |
| Parent(s) | Ludwik Wojciechowski (father) Anna Kaźmierczak (mother) |
| Relatives | Angela Merkel (granddaughter) |
Ludwig Marian Kasner (né Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak; October 17, 1896 – February 2, 1959)[1] was a German[2] policeman of Polish ethnicity[3][4][5] who worked with the Berlin Police. He was the paternal grandfather of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose birth name Kasner had been Germanized from Kaźmierczak by Ludwig Kasner in 1930.
In 2013 Ludwig Kasner received media attention in Poland and Germany after a new book shed light on Angela Merkel's family background. This was not only due to Kasner's being of Polish origin, but also because Kasner's nephew had provided a photograph of him in the uniform of the Polish Blue Army (also known as "Haller's Army") which had fought for Poland's independence in the late stages of World War I.[6][7][8]
- ^ death record nr. 326 Berlin-Lichtenberg, February 4, 1959
- ^ Kornelius, Stefan (2013). Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography. Richmond: Alma Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-1846883071.
- ^ Stefan Kornelius (10 September 2013). "Six things you didn't know about Angela Merkel". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ^ "The German chancellor's Polish roots | DW | 26.03.2013".
- ^ Kornelius, Stefan (2013). Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography. Richmond: Alma Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-1846883071.
- ^ Polnische Erregung über Angela Merkels Herkunft, Die Welt
- ^ All in the Family: Chancellor Merkel's Heritage Pleases Poles, Der Spiegel
- ^ Merkel's Polish roots emerge in new book, The Local