Tilly Moses
Mathilde "Tilly" Moses (* 1893 in Berlin as Mathilde Rothstein , † 1982 in Be'er Scheva ) was a German-Israeli mountaineer who was active in the German and Austrian Alpine Club in the 1920s . Her main occupation was a resident doctor in Berlin.
Tilly Moses, daughter of the businessman Adolph Rothstein, studied medicine in Heidelberg with her doctorate in 1919 ( on the relationship of the congenital hernia diaphragmatica to the history of its development ), worked at hospitals in Berlin and Weimar and, after marrying the doctor and surgeon Bruno Moses ( 1883–1946) settled down as a general practitioner in Berlin. In July 1938 she emigrated with her husband and two children to Palestine via the Netherlands, Paris and Taormina and had a practice with her husband in Jerusalem.
Tilly Moses was one of the few women active as a climber in the Alpine Club. She was very athletic, played tennis and skied regularly. From 1927 to 1929 she headed a forest running group in the German Alpine Club, was a tour warden from 1929 and was temporarily on the board.
Already in the 1920s there were violent anti-Semitic tendencies in the German-Austrian Alpine Association (despite the large proportion of Jews in the establishment of the association), which led to the exclusion of Jews in Austria. They then founded their own association (Donauland in Austria and DAVB in Berlin). In 1932 they opened the Friesenberghaus in the Zillertal Alps , which was expropriated by the National Socialists in 1934. Tilly Moses was active in the DAVB and her name is carved in memory like that of other Jewish members on one of the chairs in the Friesenberghaus.
She married Bruno Moses on May 24, 1921 and had two children with him, Hilde (Ruth), born in 1922, and Walter (Shimon), born in 1926.
Web links
- Locked out. Jewish mountaineers and the Alpine Club, Alpine Club, pdf
- Biography with female doctors in the German Empire, FU Berlin
References and comments
- ↑ Martin Krauss: Ascent to the Jewish hut. Nothing looks extraordinary about the Friesenberghaus - but it has a unique history, Jüdische Allgemeine, May 27, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Moses, Tilly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moses, Mathilde; Rothstein, Mathilde (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli mountaineer and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1982 |
| Place of death | Beer Sheva |