Biographical/Historical Information
The historian Hanns Günther Reissner was born in Berlin on November 29, 1902. He studied in Berlin, graduating as a ‘Dr.phil.’ with a work on Mirabeau in 1926. Reissner worked primarily in finances, and with the onslaught of the Nazis he found a position as a financial manger for the department store Kaufhaus N. Israel in Berlin. In 1939, he escaped to Bombay, India, and finally to New York in 1948. Reissner assumed his academic career as a Fellow with the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, 1965-1977, and he taught at Queens College; Trenton State College; and finally, as a Professor of History at New York Institute of Technology. Hanns Reissner died in Philadelphia in 1977.
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Photograph of Hanns Reissner, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2153C.