Abstract from Wikipedia : Albert Carl Grzesinski (born July 28, 1879 in Treptow an der Tollense, Germany as Albert Lehmann, died January 12, 1948 in Queens, New York City) was a German SPD politician and Minister of the Interior of Prussia from 1926 to 1930. Grzesinski was born the illegitimate son of a maid in Berlin and grew up with grandparents. Until he assumed the name of his stepfather in 1892, his name was Lehmann.