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Emil Drange (born 18 March 1866, died 8 April 1913 in Elbing) was a German who served as a major municipal official of the East Prussian city of Elbing. He is the great-grandfather of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and has received media attention in Poland in recent years. He retired for health reasons in 1910 and died 1913 at the age of 47.
Elbląg is a city in northern Poland on the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 120,142 inhabitants. It is the capital of Elbląg County and has been assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Previously it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship (1975–1998) and a county seat within Gdańsk Voivodeship (1945–1975).
East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 ; following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg. East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast.
Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She served as the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018. Merkel has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union, the most powerful woman in the world, and by many commentators as the leader of the Free World.
His father was a miller who had been born in Lower Silesia, and his mother was a native of the Posen (Poznań) area. His wife Emma, née Wachs, was born in Glogau in 1871 and died in 1935. The house at Grunwaldzka 63, formerly Tannenbergallee 63, and graves of Emil Drange and his wife are preserved. [1]
Lower Silesia is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast.
Poznań is a city on the Warta River in west-central Poland, in the Greater Poland region and is the fifth-largest city in Poland. It is best known for its renaissance Old Town and Ostrów Tumski Cathedral. Today, Poznań is an important cultural and business centre and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair, traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect.
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Their daughter Gertrud Alma Drange was a teacher at the school for girls, today's Queen Louise School at Czerniakowska street. After marrying Willi Jentzsch she gave birth to a daughter Herlind Jentzsch, mother of Angela Merkel.
Willi Jentzsch was a German teacher, school administrator and politician. He served as chairman of the Danziger Beamtenbund and was elected as one of the eleven Senators of the Free City of Danzig on 27 October 1926, but resigned on 1 November 1927 for health reasons. On 1 November 1927, he was appointed rector of the renowned Gymnasium St. Johann in Fleischergasse. In March 1936, he became school director in Danzig, and thus head of all elementary schools in the city-state. He married Gertrud Alma Drange in 1921 in Danzig. His wife was the daughter of Emil Drange, who made career in the administration of the Eastern Prussian city of Elbing. Willi Jentzsch and Gertrud Drange were the parents of Herlind Jentzsch, who married Horst Kasner and gave birth to Angela Kasner who married Ulrich Merkel and thus are the maternal grandparents of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. After the death of Willi Jentzsch in 1936, his family relocated to Hamburg.
