Peter Kranold

(April 15, 1926 – March 27, 1965)

Peter Kranold was a German-born L.A. fan and writer manqué active in the 1950s, best remembered for suing Forrest J Ackerman and getting kicked out of LASFS.

From a loc to Yandro 78 (July 1959, p. 16) by Ron Ellik:

Peter Kranold von Rozsla (possibly spelled Rotsla), whose real name was merely Peter Kranold, was an adult LASFS member of German origin who frequented the club early in 1955. He attended the 1955 Westercon in LA. All this was right after Vor­zimer dropped out of fandom, in January 1955. I met both Vorzimer and Kranold, and they are not the same person.

Kranold sued Forry in July 1955, after the Westercon, for several things and for an amount I never learned. The suit was laughed out of court -- Kranold could not back up his charges. You had better ask Forry what these charges were, as I learn­ed about them by word of mouth.

Shortly after that, Kranold was ex­pelled from LASFS and given back the dol­lar he paid for his membership.

Kranold also untruthfully reported Forry to the State Board of Industrial Relations for operating a literary agency without a license. He was apparently annoyed that Forry hadn’t managed to peddle his work.

He seems to have gafiated afterward and moved back to Germany at some point before he died, 10 years later, in Laufen, Germany.

Kranold was the great-nephew of German physicist Max Planck, the only son of Planck’s nephew Hermann Kranold, a political writer, and "Red Sophie" Steinhaus, an art historian and revolutionary. Peter Kranold was born in Sprottau, Germany (now Szprotawa, Poland). His father was arrested and exiled from Germany in 1933 and the family immigrated to the United States in 1936.

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Person

1926—1965

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