Background
He was born on 28 November 1885 in Munich, and died on 14 July 1947 in Winchester, England.
He was born on 28 November 1885 in Munich, and died on 14 July 1947 in Winchester, England.
Feuchtwanger"s ancestors originated from the Middle Franconian city of Feuchtwangen which, following a pogrom in 1555, expelled all its resident Jews. Some of the expellees subsequently settled in Fürth where they were called the Feuchtwangers, meaning those from Feuchtwangen. Feuchtwanger"s grandfather Elkan moved to Munich in the middle of 19th century.
He was the second son in a family of nine siblings.
He is the younger brother of Lion Feuchtwanger, a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. Ludwig lived in a home on Grillparzer Strasse, and was a neighbor of Adolf Hitler.
After Kristallnacht in 1938, following brief incarceration in Dachau, Ludwig escaped to England.