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Schlessinger, Felix (18.02.1879 - 25.10.1944) |
Coin dealer in Berlin. Born 1879 in Mainz. Schlessinger worked for Leo Hamburger in Frankfurt am Main, and moved to Berlin in 1928. Some auction sales were organised in cooperation with Robert Ball Nachfolger. Schlessinger was forced to flee into the Netherlands in 1936, where he continued his business. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943, and murdered in 1944 together with his wife Hedwig in Auschwitz. Their sons Max (later Mark M. Salton, 1914-2005) and Paul (born 1918) emigrated to the US resp. Israel, and survived the war. Lit.: K. Priese, Berliner Münzhandel, BBPN 21, 2013, pp. 211-212; U. Kampmann, Der Ursprung des deutschen Münzhandels: Die Familien Hamburger und Schlessinger (2022).U. Kampmann, Der Ursprung des deutschen Münzhandels: Die Familien Hamburger und Schlessinger (2022); M. Barth, Review Kampmann, JNG 72, 2022, pp. 459-462. |
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Vendor (to Museum)  , Vendor (to prev. Owner) |
GND |
https://d-nb.info/gnd/101509677 |
VIAF |
https://viaf.org/viaf/22506321 |
Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105655513 |
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10.05.2024 |
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