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Given her parent's insistence upon good manners, she would have called him "Mr. Pfeffer" of "Dr. Pfeffer". When she came up with pseudonyms for all those in the annex (not used past the first editions of the diary in publication) she gave his the pseudonym "Dr. Dussel" German for "Dr. Jerk".

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