Ludwig Chodziesner

Ludwig Chodziesner (28 August 1861 – 13 February 1943) was a German criminal defense lawyer and father of

Ludwig Chodziesner was born in 1861 in Obrzycko, while his brothers Max and Siegfried were born in Dobiegniew nearly a decade later.^[2] This region had been annexed by Prussia during the Partitions of Poland in the late 17th century as South Prussia, which later became the Province of Posen. Ludwig spent all of his life in Greater Poland prior to his studies in Berlin^[2] Their parents were simple folk, with their father working as a door-to-door salesman who saved money to educate his sons.^[1] Ludwig attended high school along with his brothers Siegfried and Max in Wągrowiec where their mother's sister lived.^[1][2] This was an elite high school, counting among its alumni noted literati Carl Hermann Busse and Stanisław Przybyszewski.^[3]

Years later, the oldest Chodziesner recalled this period in Wągrowiec as follows: “I lived in this town for seven years. Here I have turned from a boy to a young man and from a young man to a man. (...) here I wrote my first poems, here I got to know the world of the

In Berlin, Ludwig married Elise Schoenflies, who was born in Gorzów Wielkopolski.^[2] Elise and Ludwig had 3 daughters and a son, among which, their daughter Gertrude Käthe Chodziesner would become known to the world under her literary pseudonym, Gertrud Kolmar.^[2]

Ludwig had long identified as a German, so he was severely depressed after