Max Moszkowicz

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Max Moszkowicz (1985)

Max Moszkowicz (born October 5, 1926 in Essen ; died January 27, 2022 in Lanaken ) was a Dutch lawyer .

Life

Max Moszkowicz' father Abraham ran a small mail order business for linen in Essen. He first attended school in Essen, where he was abused as a Jewish swine, and after the National Socialists seized power in 1933 he had to flee abroad with his parents because of the German persecution of the Jews. He was attending school in Maastricht when the Netherlands was invaded in 1940. The family was imprisoned in Westerbork concentration camp in 1942 . His parents and sister were victims of the Holocaust , he himself was imprisoned in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Mauthausen . After the end of World War IIhe returned to the Netherlands as an orphan at the age of nineteen. Moszkowicz converted to Catholicism and married Maria Bertha Bessems in 1948. They have four sons.

Moszkowicz studied law in Nijmegen and became a lawyer in Maastricht. In the Netherlands he became known for taking on difficult cases from violent criminals as a criminal defense lawyer. He represented i.a. the drug lord Klaas Bruinsma and the Alfred Heineken kidnappers Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder in court and was also attacked in the media. At the end of 2012 he retired as a lawyer.

Under the pseudonym "Mr. Raab' he wrote a weekly column in the daily newspaper De Telegraaf . Material from this was reused in 1993 in the television series Recht voor z'n Raab , in which he also took part.

He was a member and for several years a functionary in the right-wing liberal People's Party for Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD).

Max Moszkowicz Senior's sons also became lawyers: Max Moszkowicz Junior, David, Robert and most prominently, Bram Moszkowicz .

writings

  • Raab geeft niet op , 2005
  • Raab zet door , 2003
  • Raab op zijn best , 1999
  • Right for zijn raap , 1998
  • Blood and tears: from practice of Mr. Raab , 1994
  • Uit de praktijk van Mr Raab , 1989
  • Mr. Raab vertelt , 1988
  • Recht voor z'n raap Dl. 2 , 1986
  • Recht voor z'n raap Dl. 1 , 1985

literature

  • Henk ten Berge: Mr. Max Moszkowicz – de pleitvader. You're right . 's-Gravenhage: BZZTôH, 1998.
  • Robert Moszkowicz: De straatvechter: mijn verhaal . Houten: Spectrum, 2014 [son Robert's autobiography].
  • Marcel Haenen: De bokser. The life of Max Moszkowicz . Amsterdam; Antwerp: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, 2018.

web links

Commons : Max Moszkowicz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b c Hermann Schröter (ed.): History and Fate of the Essen Jews: Memorial Book for the Jewish Citizens of the City of Essen. City of Essen, 1980, p. 668.
  2. ↑ a b c d Max Moszkowicz . January 4, 1997. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Nikki Sterkenburg: Max Moszkowicz Sr. official geen advocaat sea. In: Quote (online). 6 February 2013, retrieved 28 January 2022 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Juristenkantoor Mr. Robert Moszkowicz Amsterdam ( Memento of February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Publisher's Announcement and Review , at bol.com .
personal data
SURNAME Moszkowicz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer
BIRTH DATE October 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH meal
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Lanaken