caption death_date death_place religion birth_place children profession nationality birth_date spouse image article_title name
portrait provided by his daughter waltraut felkendorff . 27 may 1958 wangen , germany lutheran falkenberg , upper silesia hanna nicolstadt helma iwan , b. december 14 , 1914 in imhoff silesia waltraut felkendorff , b. december 1 , 1916 in , nikolstadt gisela heinrich , b. november 13 , 1921 in b. nicolstadt adelheid iwan , b. may 21 , 1925 in march nicolstadt 23 , 1913 in historian , writer , theologian silesian 5 august 1871 hedwig in kunitz , silesia , d. september 9 , 1954 gertrud in wangen koffmane , b. april 22 , 1889 wilhelm_iwan . jpg wilhelm iwan
 wilhelm friedrich iwan
wilhelm iwan

wilhelm iwan , author , historian , and lutheran theologian lived from 1871 until 1958 .
as a historian , he documented the 19th century exodus from germany -lrb- prussia -rrb- to america and australia by a group who sought religious freedom .
in 1945 he fled from his homeland and lived the remainder of his life as a refugee in west germany .
