Bernhard Caesar Einstein
Bernard first met his grandfather Albert when he was two years old. As a boy he travelled alone to spend time with Albert in New Jersey, and at Saranac Lake in upstate New York. Einstein recounted to his son Thomas that he used to irritate his grandfather because he would urinate out the window directly above Albert's study in Princeton. At Saranac Lake he enjoyed sailing with his grandfather. Apparently Albert Einstein's favorite time to sail was when there was very little wind. According to Bernard, his grandfather enjoyed the challenge of harnessing whatever little bit of breeze he could capture. The sailing tradition was carried on by Albert's son, Hans Albert, and Bernard's children on the San Francisco Bay. Albert Einstein died in April 1955. Having shared his love of music with his grandson, he bequeathed Bernard his violin in addition to a modest sum of money.
In 1954, Bernard married Doris Aude Ascher (born c. 1938), with whom he had five children:
Edith Hirsch (economist)
Edith Hirsch was born in Berlin, Germany to Adolph and Flora Jarislowsky. She was the third of five siblings. Hirsch received a bachelor's degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1925. She met Julius Hirsch at the childhood home of Albert Einstein's wife, who was a good friend of her mother. They married in 1927 and their only child was born in 1928. In 1933, they emigrated to Copenhagen, and in 1941 they moved to the United States. Hirsch earned a master's degree in social science in 1943 at the New School for Social Research in New York. She and her husband taught at the school throughout the 1940s and 50s. She worked as a consultant for many companies with her husband. In 1961, Julius Hirsch died and Edith closed their consulting firm, although she continued publishing papers. She continued working into her later years. She moved to Washington in 1989 and died on January 7, 2003.