Dessauer is a German surname meaning "from Dessau". Notable people with the surname include:
Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau. Population of Dessau proper: 67,747.
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1747. He was also a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian army. Nicknamed "the Old Dessauer", he possessed good abilities as a field commander, but was mainly remembered as a talented drillmaster who modernized the Prussian infantry.
Lemberger is a surname of German origin demonym for a person from the Polish city Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine. Notable people with the surname include:
The German word Müller means "miller". It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle and is the fifth most common surname in Austria. Other forms are "Miller" and "Möller". Of the various family coats of arms that exist, many incorporate milling iconography, such as windmills or watermill wheels.
Ludwig Dessoir, original name Leopold Dessauer was a German actor born in Posen, the son of a Jewish tradesman. He made his first appearance on the stage there in 1824 in a small part. After some experience at the theatre in Posen and on tour, he was engaged at Leipzig from 1834 to 1836. Then he was attached to the municipal theatre of Breslau, and in 1837 appeared at Prague, Brno, Vienna and Budapest, where he accepted an engagement which lasted until 1839. He succeeded Karl Devrient at Karlsruhe, and went in 1847 to Berlin, where he acted Othello and Hamlet with great success, he received a permanent engagement at that theatre. From 1849 to 1872, when he retired on a pension, he played 110 parts, frequently on tour, and in 1853 acting in London. He died in 1874 in Berlin.
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Münch or Muench is a German surname, meaning "monk". Notable people with this surname include the following:
Henke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dessau is a town in Germany, part of Dessau-Roßlau
Dessoir is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferdinand August Dessoir, born Anton August Ferdinand Dessauer was a German actor. He was the son of Leopold Dessauer (1810-1874) and Leopold's first wife Therese Dessoir (1810-1866). Leopold and Therese were married in 1835, but they separated only a year later in 1836.
Einstein is a German-Jewish surname. "Ein stein" is German for "a rock". It is strongly associated with German-born American physicist Albert Einstein. People with the surname include:
Moller, Möller, Møller or von Möller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bach is a surname of German-language origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Guido Dessauer was a German physicist, pioneer in paper engineering, business executive, writer, art collector, patron of the arts, and academic. Born into a family of paper industrialists, he worked as an aerospace engineer during World War II and was an executive of the family's coloured paper factory in Aschaffenburg from 1945. He was an honorary citizen of Austria for saving 300 jobs in Styria in the 1960s. He earned a Ph.D. from the Graz University of Technology in his late 50s and became an honorary professor there. Interested in art, he collected bozzetti for 50 years and initiated the career of Horst Janssen as a lithographer.
Hans Dessauer senior was a German industrialist and politician.
John H. Dessauer, also known as Hans Dessauer, was a German-American chemical engineer and an innovator in developing xerography. He was instrumental in turning a $7 million company of the 1930s into Xerox, a billion-dollar copier company.
Philipp Dessauer was a "Kgl. Bayer. Kommerzienrat" and founder of the paper factory Weißpapier- und Cellulosefabrik Aschaffenburg in Aschaffenburg.
Hahn is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hofmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: