Bernard Teltscher is President of the LMBA
and the major sponsor of the Lederer.
He was born in Wien in 1923 and he came to the UK in 1938, and gained degrees from University College, London and Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1946 he was instrumental in restarting the Cambridge Bridge Club which had been dormant during the war. He became its President and played in the first post-war Oxford match.
After university he entered the family wine-importing business.
Bernard has played bridge for more than seventy years and has won almost all English competitions with the notable excep-tion of the Gold Cup.
Bernard is married to Kitty, who will be playing for the England Women in the Istanbul Olympiad.

