Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ludwig Kasner (né Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak) (born 1896 in Posen, German Empire, died 1959 in 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 is the Germanized version of Kaźmierczak that Ludwig Kasner adopted in 1930. In 2013, he received significant media attention, in Poland and Germany, after a new book shed light on Merkel's family background. This was not only due to being of Polish origin, but also due to the fact that Kasner's nephew provided a photograph of him in the uniform of the Blue Army (also known as Haller's Army) which fought for Poland's independence in the late stages of World War I.. }
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- Ludwig_Kasner abstract "Ludwig Kasner (né Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak) (born 1896 in Posen, German Empire, died 1959 in 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 is the Germanized version of Kaźmierczak that Ludwig Kasner adopted in 1930. In 2013, he received significant media attention, in Poland and Germany, after a new book shed light on Merkel's family background. This was not only due to being of Polish origin, but also due to the fact that Kasner's nephew provided a photograph of him in the uniform of the Blue Army (also known as Haller's Army) which fought for Poland's independence in the late stages of World War I.".