The Social Security Death Index records Alfred Olschewski as born on 6 August 1911 and as dying on 1 March 1984, with a last residence in Salt Lake City, Utah.1 A 2021 obituary of a son, Louis Joseph Olschewski, names his parents as Alfred Erich Olschewski and Jeanette (Lingner) Olschewski, and says Louis was born in Salt Lake City on 21 July 1941, the second of nine children.2

A 1990 obituary of Charlotte Johanna Olschewski Mittelstaedt names her parents as Otto and Anna Waldhaus Olschewski and lists Alfred among the brothers who had predeceased her.3

In this archive the 1960 Salt Lake files are labeled Alfred Olschewski. On 17 September 1960, at a general meeting in Salt Lake City, he is introduced as Brother Alfred and asked to speak. In a talk recorded the next day at the Zitting home, he said that about nineteen or twenty years earlier, not long after he had come from the East, he was “a youngster in the work,” at a testimony meeting at the home of Brother Barlow on 4th East.4

This page is about that 1960 Salt Lake speaker, identified with Alfred Erich Olschewski (1911–1984) of Salt Lake City. It is not about the painter Alfred Erich Olschewski (1920–2001) of Acton, Massachusetts, a different man with different parents and a different death record.5 Later archive files also name a speaker labeled Alfred O. Olschewski, and a 1968 file labeled Young Alfred Olschewski; those labels are not treated here as the same person. His brother Helmut Siegfried Olschewski (1924–2015) spoke at the Zitting home on 16 October 1960.