Armand Wittekind was born in Bad Kissingen on May 5, 1890 as the first child of the dealer of antiquities Arthur Wittekind and his wife Therese, née Rheinstein. In 1895, his sister Olga was born. The family lived in Theresienstrasse 23. who held the title "imperial-royal purveyor to the court", had been given citizenship right of Kissingen by the magistrate in November 1896. He owned an art and antique store on the corner of Ludwigstrasse and Theresienstrasse.

After attending the first four classes of Elementary School, in September 1890, Armand entered Kissingen Realschule, the predecessor of contemporary Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium, which he graduated from successfully in July 1906. 

Armand Wittekind took part in World War I as a front fighter and was released in 1918 as a lieutenant of the reserve. After the war, he first returned to Bad Kissingen and lived with his parents again. During the time of unrest at the beginning of Weimar Republic, Wittekind joined the Kissingen “Einwohner- und Volkswehr” (Citizens’ and People’s Defence) as a protection against the riots of the “Räte”. A lot of other Kissingen citizens also belonged to them such as Ludwig Ehrlich, Siegmund Federlein, Otto Goldstein, Samuel Hoffmann und Hartwig Heymann (Beck/ Walter, Jüdisches Leben in Bad Kissingen, p. 51). The young antiquarian also was a passionate aficionado of the cycling sport. He committed himself in “Velociped-Club Bad Kissingen” as is proved by his signature on a greeting card signed by members of the club of 1919.

The “Velociped-Club Bad Kissingen” was founded on May 8, 1888 and was critically watched at the beginning. There were lots of people who thought that the area was unfit for cycling. But by means of the first bicycle race in the year of its founding the club managed to win the attentions of the public. Even more attention was gained by the club when they built a racecourse in Summer 1889 and held races there.

n November 1919, Armand Wittekind married Charlotte Danziger, who was born in Berlin in 1999, at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, In April 1924, he returned to the Franconian spa town for a year, when his father had died. His mother had already died in 1907. In October 1925, he moved to Berlin for good and married Berlin-born Charlotte, née Danziger in 1928. Armand Wittekind owned an antiquarian shop in Viktoriastrasse 5 which is listed in the Berlin Registry till 1934.

It is possible that he moved to France as early as in that year, his place of residence being Paris is proved at least since March 1937. He ran an internationally renowned art and antiques’ business in Rue François I. After the invasion of the German troops, Armand Wittekind’s art objects obviously belonged to the cultural assets that had been seized and robbed under the direction of “Reichsleiter” (conductor of the Reich) Alfred Rosenberg. After the occupation of France, the action group directed by Alfred Rosenberg encamped in the museum of “Jeu de Paume” in Paris where he was responsible for confiscating “ownerless” Jewish art collections. He plundered French private collections and museums for the Museum of Art in Linz that had been planned by Hitler himself. (See: Frohn, Axel: Die Fotoalben des “Führers”, Spiegel Online, November 24, 2007, http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/raubkunst-a-948854.html).

It may be assumed that Wittekind and his wife had already left Paris at that time. Details haven’t become known so far. In any case, Armand Wittekind and his wife lived in Paris in Rue François I again at the beginning of the 1950s. In June 1951, he travelled to Canada and the United States with his wife. Armand Wittekind lived in Geneva in the 1960s but also stayed in Bad Kissingen for some periods of time. He died in his town of birth on December 5, 1966 after a long serious illness and was not buried in the Jewish Cemetery but in Parkfriedhof of Bad Kissingen. In his death entry Genf/ Geneva is stated as his last place of residence.

Armand Wittekind’s younger sister Olga, m. Zantler, also survived. She could emigrate to England in time and was living in London in 1951.