- Buried in the Friedhof Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin. His tombstone has since been lost, and his exact burial place is unknown.
- First studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon Mittweida. He then changed his area of study to business before transitioning into art/acting.
- Was married to Elizabeth Seidel with whom he had one daughter, Ursula (1915-1951). Also an actress, Ursula was a victim of the Nazi regime in 1935 that prohibited her from appearing in subsequent films after she failed to produce ancestry papers for her father to prove he was not of Jewish descent.
- He has an entry in "Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs" by Jean Tulard published in Paris in 2007 (page 8).
- Son of Louis Abel, a peddler, and Anna Maria Selma Abel.
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