Giwi Margwelaschwili (Georgian: გივი მარგველაშვილი Givi Margvelashvili; 14 December 1927 – 13 March 2020) was a German-Georgian writer and philosopher.

After World War II, his father and he were abducted by the Soviet NKVD secret police.

He was born in Berlin, the son and second child [1] of the notable Georgian intellectual Tite Margwelaschwili,[2] who had moved to Germany after the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 and was chairman of the Georgian political emigre organization in Berlin from 1941.

Due to Allied bombing, he attended several different gymnasium schools in Berlin during 1934 to 1946,[1] and participated in the anti-Nazi youth counterculture Swing Kids.

[1] Shortly before the end of World War II, he and his father escaped from Occupied Germany to Italy where his sister, Elisabeth, lived.

In 1971, he was appointed to the Institute of Philosophy at the Georgian Academy of Sciences[1] and began philosophical publications.

In 1972, he met Heinrich Böll, a Nobel laureate in literature from West Germany, who was impressed by his unpublished autobiography, Kapitän Wakusch.

[3] With the help of civil rights activist Ekkehard Maaß in 1990, he settled in Berlin [5] and was naturalized as a German citizen in 1994.

Several books followed, including novels, philosophical commentaries on Classical authors, and poems, which quickly won national and international acclaim.