Ludwig Kasner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludwig Kasner

German police officer

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1896

Place of Birth: Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1959

Profession: police officer, police officer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ludwig Kasner (né Ludwik Marian Kazmierczak; Posen (Poznan), German Empire, 28 October 1896 – 1959, Berlin) was a German policeman of Polish ethnicity who worked with the Berlin Police.
He was the paternal grandfather of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose birth name Kasner had been Germanized from Kazmierczak 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.