Name Emil Drange Children Gertrud Drange | Grandchildren Herlind Kasner | |
Great grandchildren Angela Merkel, Irene Kasner, Marcus Kasner | ||
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.
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 Grunewaldzka 63, formerly Tannenbergallee 63, and graves of Emil Drange and his wife are preserved.
Their daughter Gertrud 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 Herlinda, mother of Angela Merkel.