Family of Bernhard Berend Moses DESSAU and Therese LEEDER

Husband:	Bernhard Berend Moses DESSAU (1861-1923)
Wife:	Therese LEEDER (c. 1865- )
Marriage	19 Aug 1885	Stucksenstein, Germany

Husband: Bernhard Berend Moses DESSAU

Name:	Bernhard Berend Moses DESSAU1,2,3
Sex:	Male
Father:	Moses Berend DESSAU (1821-1881)
Mother:	Eva MULLER (1825-1877)
Birth	1 Mar 1861	Hamburg, Germany
Title		Prof
Occupation	1880 (age 18-19)	Violinist, Composer and Concert Master; Berlin, Germany
	Address: Berlin Royal Opera, Unter den Linden
Residence	1920 (age 58-59)	Charlottenburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany4
	Address: Bleibtreustrasse 41 Tel: Steinplatz 4025
Residence	1923 (age 61-62)	Charlottenburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany5
	Address: Bleibtreustrasse 41 Tel: Steinplatz 8830 Tel: Bismarck 4318 Address: Bismark (35 49)
Death	28 Apr 1923 (age 62)	Charlottenburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Residence	1924 (age 62-63)	Berlin, Germany6

Wife: Therese LEEDER

Name:	Therese LEEDER
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	c. 1865	Wien, Austria

Note on Husband: Bernhard Berend Moses DESSAU - shared note

Studied under Schradieck (Hamburg and Leipzig), Joachim and Wieniawski (Berlin). Gave Paul Dessau his first violin when age 6. One of his old violins sold for £70-90k at Sotherbys (Nicola Gagliano Filius Alexandri fecit. Neap. 1738). Taught Marlene Dietrich Piano and Violin. Taught others also in Rotterdam. One of the three leaders of the Berlin Royal Orchestra. Member of famous trio: Heinrich Grünfeld (cello), Bernhard Dessau (violin), Moritz Mayer-Mahr (piano).Possible derivation Dessoux.

 

Bis 1918 besucht Marlene Dietrich die Auguste-Victoria-Schule in Charlottenburg und macht dort das Abitur. Neben der Schule erlernt sie das Violinspiel bei Professor Dessau.

 

Schiller-Theater Charlottenburg

30 January 1921: Sonntag-Mittags-Konzerte. Zweites Konzert, given by a string quartet of Waldemar Lütschg, Bernhard Dessau, Robert Könecke and Fritz Becker, with Claire Huth (vocal), accompanied by Max von Schillings [42]

Sources

1	Ancestry.com, "German Phone Directories, 1915-1981" (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;).
	Ancestry.com.

2

Ibid.

3

Ibid.

4

Ibid.

5

Ibid.

6

Ibid.