Leschnitzer married Dr. Maria E. Bratz (1909-2005) in 1937. [3] [7] Their son Michael Leschnitzer (later known as Michael Lesch), who became a lawyer, was born in Berlin in 1938. [3] [8]
Adolf Leschnitzer's younger brother was the pacifist writer and Communist activist Franz Leschnitzer (1905-1967). [2] [9]
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