Ludwig Kasner

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.

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Ludwig Marian Kasner
Kaźmierczak in Polish Blue Army uniform, with an unknown woman
Born	Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak October 17, 1896 Posen, Prussia, German Empire (now Poznań, Poland)
Died	February 3, 1959 (aged 62) Berlin-Karlshorst, East Germany
Spouse	Marie Margarete Pörschke (1905 - 1986)
Children	Horst Kasner
Parent(s)	Ludwik Wojciechowski (father) Anna Kaźmierczak (mother)
Relatives	Angela Merkel (granddaughter)

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]