Wilhelm Kimbel

Born in Breslau in 1868, the cabinetmaker and interior designer was born into a family of cabinetmakers from Mainz. After years of apprenticeship in Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin and a stay of several years in America, he made a career as an interior designer in Berlin and produced furniture for the German Kaiser, among others.

He left traces in the Zeughaus Berlin, the Stadtschloss and the Eden and Adlon hotels, among others. These works have all been destroyed. Only in the Charlottenburg town hall does the council chamber still exist, which was designed in 1914 and is used as a marquetry hall.
In 1933 Kimbel moved to Zehdenick and created several watercolours of landscapes and flowers. He died here in 1965 and was buried in cemetery I.