Hans Bassermann

Hans Bassermann (20 September 1888 – 12 February 1978) was a German violinist and music scholar.

[1] After attending the humanistic grammar school and completing his military service in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, he studied for two years at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Andreas Moser and Henri Marteau, among others, whom he later represented, as well as at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, with Gustav Hollaender.

In 1928 he succeeded Henri Marteau at the Leipzig Conservatory and in 1930 he became a lecturer at the Musikhochschule in Weimar, where, being Jewish, he was dismissed in 1933.

[4] Before emigrating to the USA via Switzerland and Palestine in 1938, he was concertmaster in the orchestra of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.

In Switzerland he played as concertmaster in the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet in 1937.