Mirko Szewczuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mirko Szewczuk

German cartoonist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1919

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 31-May-1957

Profession: cartoonist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mirko Szewczuk, was born Volodymyr Szewczuk (September 20, 1919 in Vienna; and died May 31, 1957 in Hamburg, Germany) was a German cartoonist of Austrian-Ukrainian origin. Szewczuk was born in 1919 in Vienna, Austria.
From 1926-1938, he attended the elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Vienna.
In 1939, at the age of 20, he became a soldier and remained so until the end of the Second World War. In 1941, he received an education as a draughtsman at a press propaganda company of the Wehrmacht.
He was employed in 1942 as a press cartoonist for the caricature agency Die Politische Zeichnung - Interpress Between 1946-49, he studied at the National Arts School of Hamburg and was a cartoonist for the weekly German newspaper "Die Zeit".
He then transferred to the daily newspaper Die Welt, where he worked until his death in Hamburg in 1957.