Ludwig Kasner was born in Posen, Prussia German Empire back in 1896 to Ludwik and Anna. In 1915, during WWI he was drafted into the German Army and fought on the western front before being taken prisoner of war in France. After his release he joined the Polish Blue Army which fought for Polish independence on the side of the Entente Powers.
After the Treaty of Versailles, he opted for German citizenship and relocated to Berlin. He worked for the Berlin Police, last in Berlin’s Pankow district reaching the rank of “chief watch master”, the most senior constable rank. He died in 1959, he was either 62 or 63.
What you may not know about Ludwig is that he was the paternal grandfather of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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