Alexander Moksel

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Alexander Moksel (born February 1, 1918 in Płock (Poland); † October 21, 2010 in Buchloe ) was a German entrepreneur . He founded the now internationally active company A. Moksel AG , which has made a name for itself in the meat and meat products trade .

Life

Alexander Moksel came from a family who owned a slaughterhouse in Płock, Mazovia . He himself was persecuted as a Jew during the National Socialist era and imprisoned in a camp in 1941. He lost all trace of his parents and siblings in the Holocaust . At the beginning of 1944 he managed to escape from the Raizisko camp. He lived with partisans in the forest until the Red Army advanced into the area. After the end of the war he came to Buchloe in 1945. He began slaughtering animals in a disused brewery and selling meat and sausages in a shop. He purposefully expanded his butcher's business .

In 1948 he had his own slaughterhouse . In the 1950s, Moksel began trading meat mainly in southern Germany , and from 1957 also with imports from Austria . From 1964 export business was added, initially mainly to Italy. In 1970, exports behind the Iron Curtain followed and expanded. In 1974 the entrepreneur entered the service business for cutting, storage and logistics of meat. In the further course of the business, under Moksel’s leadership, the company took holdings and began to produce its goods in large slaughterhouses, first in 1985 in Buchloe. 1972 and 1978 Alexander Moksel belonged to the SPD side the City Council in Buchloe. In October 1987, his company, which had become a stock corporation , went public . After the political change, three meat centers were put into operation by the food manufacturer in the new federal states.

After German reunification , the "Moksel Affair" made headlines in Bavaria. In 1995, the entrepreneur accepted a punishment over 2,448,000 DM for tax evasion in five cases. It was about dubious payments to numbered accounts in East Berlin and Switzerland . Moksel himself asserted that he had only held the funds in trust for counterparties in the former GDR in consultation with Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . Before an investigative committee of the Bavarian state parliament , which wanted to shed light on any links between the GDR foreign exchange procurer and the CSU , he refused to testify in connection with his East-West business. Until 1994 Moksel was responsible for the management of the company he founded.

He was married. His wife Antonie Maria Moksel, b. Weber (born September 25, 1924 in Buchloe; † December 21, 2016 there) received the honorary citizenship of Buchloe like him. His marriage had four children. Alexander Moksel was buried after his death on October 21, 2010 in the municipal cemetery in Buchloe.

Patronage

Moksel was known for his generosity in certain projects. He donated an amount of 1.25 million DM for the local hospital. A kindergarten was established with funds of 3.5 million DM from his assets. As a patron , he gave donations to the football stadium, church foundations and some club houses in the city . He donated half a million euros for the construction of the synagogue in the Jewish center of the state capital Munich.

As an avid equestrian he organized horse shows in Buchloe. In 1989 he was able to inspire the Olympian Ludger Beerbaum with financial commitments for the Ostallgäu hometown as a training location.

In 1983, at the suggestion of Anton Posset , Moksel financed the purchase of parts of the remaining property belonging to the Kaufering VII concentration camp command, which was later preserved by the Landsberg Citizens' Association in the 20th century and expanded into a European Holocaust memorial in the following decades .

honors and awards

Alexander Moksel had been an honorary citizen of the city of Buchloe since 1977. Moksel received two orders of merit from the Federal Republic of Germany : the Merit Cross on Ribbon and the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

For his involvement in equestrian sport, Moksel received the "Golden Association Pin with Wreath" from the Association of Riding and Driving Clubs in Swabia. The German Equestrian Association awarded him the German Equestrian Cross in gold. The football stadium and a street in Buchloe were named after Alexander Moksel during his lifetime.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ merkur-online.de: 500,000 euros for the new synagogue , accessed on March 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Moksel.de: company history ( Memento of 3 June 2010 at the Internet Archive ), accessed March 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of October 22, 2010: Alexander Moksel is dead , accessed on March 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ The mirror , issue 13/1993, page 116: Sylvia 651 , accessed on March 14, 2015.
  5. ↑ Die Zeit of November 26, 1993: Benefactors in the Twilight , accessed on March 14, 2015.
  6. ↑ Cavallo.de: Horse patron Alexander Moksel is dead ( Memento of the original from November 9th 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 14, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cavallo.de
  7. ↑ Dirk Walter: A delicate restructuring case . Oberbayerisches Volksblatt of April 25, 2014, article reproduced on the website of the Mühldorfer Hart Memorial, accessed on September 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ Buchloer Zeitung of October 22, 2010: Mourning for sponsors and entrepreneurs , accessed on March 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Moksel, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Plock
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2010
Place of death Buchloe