Adolf Leschnitzer

Adolf Leschnitzer (3 February 1899 – 24 July 1980) was a German-American writer-researcher, historian and teacher, specialising in Jewish and German studies.

Biography Adolf Friedrich Leschnitzer was born in Posen (as Poznań was known) before 1945). He was born into a Jewish merchant family of Polish provenance. Oscar Leschnitzer (1864–1934), his father, was a pharmacist who moved with his family to Berlin in 1910. In or before 1926 he passed Levels I and II of the National professional exams for work in teaching. This meant he was responsible for the education of approximately 38,000 school children in 130 schools.

Publications (selection) Adolf Leschnitzer also published written contributions to magazines and journals on topics that included German-Jewish history, Anti-Semitism, Heinrich Heine (and other German-Jewish writers) and Goethe.

Personal Leschnitzer married Dr. Maria E. Bratz (1909–2005) in 1937. Their son Michael Leschnitzer (later known as Michael Lesch), who became a lawyer, was born in Berlin in 1938.

Adolf Leschnitzer's younger brother was the pacifist writer and Communist activist Franz Leschnitzer (1905–1967).