Johannes Carl August Kollwitz (1863 - 1940)

Born 13 Jun 1863 in Rudau, Fischhausen, Ostpreußen, Preußen, Deutscher Bund

Husband of Käthe Ida (Schmidt) Kollwitz — married about Jun 1891 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Preußen, Deutschland

Died 19 Jul 1940 at age 77 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Preußen, Deutsches Reich

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Biography

Karl Kollwitz, husband of the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, was born in 1863, he died in 1940.

Karl Kollwitz led his practice as a doctor for the poor. In 1913, the Social Democratic Chamber of Physicians founded Ernst Simmel and Ignaz Zadek. He was a member of the Youth Relief Committee in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg and in the German League for Human Rights. After the German November Revolution of 1919, he became active as a city councilor of the SPD in the Berlin municipal politics and as a member of the International Socialist Kampfbund.

Sources

Secondary sources:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #132810693
• Billion Graves: Karl Kollwitz
• Wikidata: Item Q1731978
• English Wikipedia article on his wife Käthe Kollwitz
• German Wikipedia article on his wife Käthe Kollwitz

See also:

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KDB4-MCH