Dessauer is a

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Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

". Notable people with the surname include: * Alois Dessauer, (born Aron Baruch Dessauer; 1763–1850), German banker, manufacturer * Ferdinand Dessauer (also ''Dessoir'', 1836–1892), German actor (son of Leopold) *

Friedrich Dessauer Friedrich Dessauer (19 July 1881 – 16 February 1963) was a physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist. Friedrich Dessauer was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany. As a young man he was fascinated by new discover ...

(1881–1963), biophysician, philosopher (brother of Hans)) *

Gabriel Dessauer Gabriel Dessauer (born 4 December 1955) is a German cantor, concert organist, and academic. He was responsible for the church music at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden from 1981 to 2021, conducting the Chor von St. Bonifatius until 2018. He is an inte ...

(born 1955), German cantor, concert organist and academic (son of Guido) *

Guido Dessauer Guido Dessauer (7 November 1915 – 13 January 2012) 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 a ...

(1915–2012), German coloured paper manufacturer, art collector and academic (son of Hans) * Hans Dessauer (1869–1926), German coloured paper manufacturer and politician (son of Philipp) *

Herbert C. Dessauer Herbert Clay Dessauer (30 December 1921 – 8 February 2013) was an American biochemist, and a pioneer in the use of molecular systematics to clarify the evolutionary relationships of anole Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly kno ...

(1921–2013), American biochemist * John H. Dessauer (1905–1993), German born American chemical engineer (son of Hans) * Josef Dessauer (1798–1876), Bohemian-German composer * Julius Dessauer (1832–1883), Hungarian rabbi and writer * Leopold Dessauer, (1810–1874), Polish-German actor, known during his stage career as "Ludwig Dessoir" * Philipp Dessauer, (1837–1900), German industrialist (father of Hans) *

Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (3 July 1676 – 7 April 1747) 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. Nickname ...

was known by the nickname "the old Dessauer"

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