Berta Dispecker was born February 20, 1858 in Bad Kissingen. Her parents were Philip Freitag, a timber merchant and master carpenter in Kissingen, and Mina Freitag, née Sachs. She moved to Munich June 27, 1883, and married there Simon Dispecker, merchant and banker, who was born in Fürth December 25, 1848.
In 1885, Simon Dispecker and Eugen Schweisheimer founded a bank in Munich. In 1893, Simon Dispecker left the bank and his brother Julius Schweisheimer took over as partner. Julius lived with his family at Martiusstrasse 8 (see article).
Simon and Bertha had two children, daughter Lilly, who was born in Munich March 6, 1887, who died at the age of four, and Ernst Heinrich, born on March 31, 1884 in Munich.
Her husband Simon died March 6, 1911, in Munich. From July 1, 1927, Bertha lived in her own apartment at Schneckenburger Strasse 42. Her moves began on March 7, 1934; first she lived with the Lewin family at Kaulbachstrasse 36/0, and then had to move in with Charlotte Perutz (see article on Charlotte Perutz) at Martiusstrasse 8 on 26 January 1939, where she stayed until 1 June 1939. On June 1, 1939, Bertha was sent by the Nazi authorities to the Gisela guesthouse at Giselastrasse 15 and then November 17, 1941, to the Jewish retirement home at Kaulbachstrasse 65. Her last stop in Munich from March 18, 1942 was the so-called „Jewish settlement“, the deportation camp at Knorrstrasse 148, from where she was transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp June 18, 1942. She died October 10, 1942 due to the inhumane treatment there. According to the death certificate of the Council of Elders in the old people’s home in the Kavalier barracks she died of „heart muscle softening“.
Bertha and Simons son, Dr. jur Ernst Dispecker, district court councellor, emigrated with his wife Betty, née Erdmann (born July 23, 1898 in Fürth), to London in February 1939, and they went from there to New York, where he died March 14, 1950. His wife later returned to Germany and died in Munich November 14, 1967.