Death: 5th October 1953
Location: Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Berlin, Germany
Cause of death: Heart Attack
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German doctor, dramatist and novelist. He qualified as a doctor in 1913 and became a field doctor on the Western Front during World War I. His first prose writing was published in 1917. After the Nazis came to power, Wolf emigrated with his family to Moscow. In 1938 he made his way to Spain to work as a doctor in the International Brigades. However, he was arrested in France and interned in the concentration camp Le Vernet. In 1941 he gained Soviet citizenship and returned to Moscow. In 1945 he returned to Germany and was active in literary and cultural-political issues. From 1949 to 1951 he was the first ambassador of East Germany to Poland.
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