When Anna Martha Kraft was born on 8 November 1880, in Paunsdorf, Kreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, her father, Gottfried Hermann Kraft, was 41 and her mother, Johanna Christiane Müller, was 29. She married Ewald Felix Knoll on 13 April 1902, in Paunsdorf, Kreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 9 April 1953, in Reudnitz-Thonberg, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, at the age of 72.
German (also Kräft), Danish, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a strong man, from Old High German kraft, German Kraft ‘strength, power’. The Swedish name probably originated as a soldier's name. In part, the German and Danish names possibly also derive from a late survival of the same word used as a byname, Old High German Chraft(o), Old Norse Kraptr. See also Craft and Croft .
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