David M. Bressler

David Maurice Bressler (May 1, 1879 – December 16, 1942) was a German-born Jewish American social worker from New York.

Early life and education Bressler was born in Charlottenburg, Germany on May 1, 1879, the son of Julius Bressler and Sarah Rothenberg. Bressler immigrated to America in 1884. He attended the College of the City of New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the New York Law School. In 1937, Lehman appointed him to the New York State Appeal Board of Unemployment Insurance.

Bressler lived in New York City. He was secretary of the Executive Committee of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith in 1903. He became an executive committee member of the American Jewish Committee in 1925. He was chairman of the advisory board of the Beth Abraham Home for Incurables in 1926. He was a director of the Sydenham Hospital, a delegate-at-large of the Federation for Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York, a board member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Palestine Economic Corporation, and the National Refugee Service, an executive committee member of the Joint Distribution Committee, and a non-Zionist member of the Council of the Jewish Agency in Palestine. He also published Industrial Removal Office in 1903, The Distribution of Jewish Immigrants in 1907, and Reports on Present-Day Conditions of the Jews in Eastern Europe in 1930.

Bressler died at his office on 75 Maiden Lane from a heart attack on December 16, 1942. His funeral took place in Temple Emanu-El in New York. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson delivered the eulogy. The honorary pallbearers included Paul Baerwald, Dr. Jacob Billikopf, Dr. Gabriel Davidson, Eugene G. Dreyer, Rabbi Isidore Frank, Dr. Ephraim Frisch, Lawrence Greenbaum, Dr. Maurice B. Hexter, Alexander Kahn, David Brown, Dr. David J. Kaliski, Dr. David Lvovich, James Marshall, Dr. Fred J. Newman, Louis S. Posner, James N. Rosenberg, William Rosenwald, Morton Stein, Horace Stern, Lionel Strassburger, Morris D. Waldman, Truly Warner, Dr. Jacob Golub, Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, I. Edwin Goldwasser, and Joseph C. Hyman. Former Governor Herbert H. Lehman was supposed to be head the honorary pallbearers, but he was unable to attend the funeral.