Bernhard Mosberg

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Stumbling blocks for Bernhard, Rosalie and Gertrud Mosberg in Bielefeld, Arthur-Ladebeck-Straße 6.

Bernhard Mosberg (born February 20, 1874 in Bielefeld ; † 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a Bielefeld orthopedic surgeon who served as a doctor in the v. Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten in Bielefeld-Bethel worked.

Life

Bernhard Mosberg studied medicine and received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1898 with the dissertation "The excretion of phlorhizine and sugar in the kidneys". In 1903 he became a specialist in surgery and orthopedics in Bielefeld, and in 1908 he moved into the house in which the museum pharmacy is now rented. Mosberg was a medical officer in the First World War . From 1919 to 1932 he worked part-time in Bethel. He constructed the "Mosberg Arms". After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was able to continue working in his practice under racist restrictions until his license to practice medicine was revoked in 1938. After the pogrom of November 9th, 1938 , Mosberg fled to the Netherlands , where he was arrested after the occupation by the National Socialists and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on January 18, 1944 via the Westerbork transit camp . On May 18, 1944, he was transported to Auschwitz , where he was murdered. Likewise his wife Roza and his daughter, the doctor Gertrud Mosberg.

In 1987, at the instigation of a Bielefeld peace group, the Adolf-Stöcker -Strasse in Bielefeld-Schildesche was renamed Bernhard-Mosberg-Strasse.

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