Friedrich Wolf (writer)

Friedrich Wolf
Friedrich Wolf (1952)
Born	23 December 1888 Neuwied, Rhine Province, Germany
Died	5 October 1953 , Brandenburg, Germany
Occupation	Physician writer politician Diplomat
Political party	KPD (1926) SED (1950)
Spouse(s)	Kaethe Gumpold (1914) Else (Eva) Dreibholz (1922)
Children	Johanna Marie (1915) Lukas (1919) Markus (1923–2006) Konrad (1925–1982) by Irmgard Schaaf Thomas Naumann (1953)
Parent(s)	Max & Ida Wolf

Friedrich Wolf (23 December 1888 – 5 October 1953) was a German doctor and politically engaged writer. From 1949 to 1951, he served as East Germany's first ambassador to Poland.

Wolf was born in Neuwied (Rhine Province), the son of a Jewish merchant.

From 1907 until 1912 he studied medicine, philosophy and art history in Munich, Tübingen, Bonn, and Berlin and became a doctor in 1913. In 1914 he worked first as a ship's doctor on the route between Canada, Greenland and the United States, and then in the same year became a field doctor on the Western Front in World War I; this experience made him a strong opponent of war. In 1917 he published his first prose pieces.

In 1918 he became a member of the Workers council in Dresden and joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. After the war he worked as a doctor in Remscheid and Hechingen, where he focused on care for common people and prescribed treatment using naturopathic medicine. In 1923 and 1925 his sons Markus and Konrad were born. After 1928 he became a member of the Communist Party and the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors. In 1929 his drama "Cyankali" sparked a debate about abortion, and he was briefly arrested and charged for performing abortions.