Jewish artillery captain from Alsace, member of the French general staff. His anti-semitically inspired unjust conviction for treason in 1894 (for allegedly passing artillery secrets to the Germans) set off the Dreyfus Affair, at the end of which he was pardoned and reinstated in 1899, especially through the efforts of Emile Zola, and ultimately exonerated in 1906. He later served in World War I, and was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Dreyfus is mentioned several times in Schenker's diary, the earliest in the 1899 diary (OJ 1/3, p. 8).

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