Leopold Badt grew up in Rogoźno/Posen. After studying medicine, he was licensed in 1888.1 He married Rosa Wolf, born in 1876, on October 19, 1892. Badt founded an institute for the treatment of motility disorders in Wiesbaden together with the neurologist Richard Friedländer in 1903.2 The "Sanitätsrat" (medical council) died at the age of 73 under unclear circumstances in 1938.3
Badt's widow was deported to Riga in 1942, where shed died in the ghetto on January 25, 1942.4 The couple had two children. Their daughter Anna Elisabeth Badt (born 1893) and their son, the dermatologist and neurologist Friedrich Badt (1895-1989), who emigrated to the United States.5