Ernst Penzoldt

Background

Penzoldt was born in Erlangen. His father Franz Penzoldt was a German professor of medicine.

Education

Grom 1912 he studied sculpture in Weimar, under German sculpture professor Albin Egger-Lienz.

Career

He had three older brothers. In 1913 Penzoldt and Stolle went to university in Kassel. During World War I Petzoldt was in the army and worked as an emergency medical technician.

In 1917 his friend Stolle died on active service.

After World War I Penzoldt lived in 1919 in Munich. Heimeran started his own publishing company, Heimeran Verlag.

During the next years Penzoldt wrote several works, which he published in Heimeran Verlag. In 1922 Penzoldt married Heimerans sister Friederike.

They had two children: Günther (1923–1997) and Ulrike (born 1927).

He died, aged 62, in Munich.

Membership

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.

Connections

Partner:

Günther Stolle

Friend:

Ernst Heimeran