Question: Who was born first, Ludwig Renn or Elias Canetti?
Context: The Thälmann Battalion was a battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.  It was named after the imprisoned German communist leader Ernst Thälmann (born 16 April 1886, executed 18 August 1944) and included approximately 1,500 people, mainly Germans, Austrians, Swiss and Scandinavians.  The battalion fought in the defence of Madrid.  Amongst the commanders of the battalion were the German writer, historian and World War I officer Ludwig Renn (later Chief of Staff of the XI International Brigade) and Prussian World War I officer Hans Kahle, later promoted to lead the Republican 45th division for a time.  The battalion, like the International Brigades in general, also attracted its share of intellectuals, such as the well-known writer Willi Bredel who became its commissar. Crowds and Power (German: "Masse und Macht" ) is a 1960 book by Elias Canetti, dealing with the dynamics of crowds and "packs" and the question of how and why crowds obey power of rulers.  Canetti draws a parallel between ruling and paranoia.  Also, the memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber are analyzed with an implicit critique of Sigmund Freud and Gustave Le Bon. Teodoras Četrauskas (born 1944) is a Lithuanian writer and literary translator.  He has translated more than eighty books from German into Lithuanian, including the writing of Günter Grass, Thomas Bernhard, Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Siegfried Lenz, Alfred Döblin and Michael Ende. Galin Nikiforov (Bulgarian: Галин Никифоров ) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer.  He was born in 1968 and lives in Dobrich, Bulgaria.  He graduated from the Technical University of Plovdiv and the University of Economics Varna.  He has worked as an engineer in the industry since 1993.  He is married and has a daughter.  In 2011 his book "Losers" Summer' won the biggest literature competition in the country - "Novel of the Year".  A month later his latest novel "The House of Clowns" won the Elias Canetti Award. Canetti Peak (Vrah Kaneti \'vr&h ka-'ne-ti\) is a 400 m peak in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.  The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and overlooks Zagore Beach and False Bay to the west and north, and Charity Glacier to the south.  The peak was named after Elias Canetti (1905–1994), a Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate in literature. Ludwig Renn (22 April 1889 in Dresden – 21 July 1979 in Berlin) was a German author.  Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin. Carolina Schutti (born 1976) is an Austrian writer.  Born in Innsbruck, she studied an eclectic range of subjects: German philology, English and American Studies, and music.  She obtained her PhD on the work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Elias Canetti.  She then taught at the University of Florence, before joining Literaturhaus am Inn as a researcher.  She has published widely on literary matters.  Schutti received the 2015 EU Prize for Literature for her novel "Einmal muss ich über weiches Gras gelaufen sein" ("Once I must have trodden soft grass"). The Crowd (subtitled For Elias Canetti) is an album by the Rova Saxophone Quartet recorded in France in 1985 for the Swiss Hathut label. Nessim Jacques Canetti (30 May 1909, Ruse, Bulgaria – 7 June 1997, Suresnes) was a French music executive and a talent agent.  Born into a Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were Jacques Elias (Elieser) and Matilda (née Arditti) Canetti.  He was the brother of the Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti (1905-1994) and of Georges Canetti (1911-1971), a researcher and professor at the Pasteur Institute.  Canetti studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. Elias Canetti ( ; Bulgarian: Елиас Канети ; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria, and later a British citizen.  He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer.  He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".
Answer: Ludwig Renn