Willi Jentzsch

{{Infobox person | name = Willi Jentzsch | image = | caption = | relatives = Angela Merkel (granddaughter) | children = Herlind Jentzsch | spouse = Gertrud Drange | birth_place = Wolfen, Prussia, German Empire (now the Federal Republic of Germany) | birth_date = 15 May 1886 | death_place = Danzig, Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Republic of Poland) | death_date = 23 May 1936 (aged 50) | occupation = Teacher, Senator | parents = Friedrich Wilhelm Jentzsch (father)<br/>Wilhelmine Pauline Minna Wilde (mother) }}

'''Willi Jentzsch''' (15 May 1886 – 23 May 1936) was a German teacher, school administrator and politician. He served as chairman of the {{lang|de|Danziger Beamtenbund}} (Danzig Federation of Civil Servants) 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.

== Family == Willi Jentzsch was the son of Wilhelm Jentzsch, a landowner ({{lang|de|Gutsbesitzer}}) who belonged to a prominent family in Wolfen.

Jentzsch married Gertrud Alma Drange in 1921 in Danzig. She was the daughter of Emil Drange, who made career in the administration of the Eastern Prussian city of Elbing, and his wife Emma (''née'' Wachs). Through their daughter Herlind, who married Horst Kasner, Willi and Gertrud Jentzsch were the maternal grandparents of Angela Merkel (née Kasner). After the death of Willi Jentzsch in 1936, his family relocated to Hamburg.

==Ancestry==

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==References== *''Die Kanzlerin und ihre Welt'' by Stefan Kornelius, {{ISBN|978-3-455-50291-6}} * [http://www.ostpreussen.net/ostpreussen/orte.php?bericht=922 Prominente Elbinger - Ostpreussen]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jentzsch, Willi}} Category:Heads of schools in Germany Category:Free City of Danzig politicians Category:Angela Merkel Category:1886 births Category:1936 deaths