Moritz Weinberg

Moritz Weinberg (born September 29, 1888 in Werther , Westphalia , † 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a German lawyer.

He studied law from 1907 and became a Dr. jur. initially a lawyer. During the First World War he was a first lieutenant, for which he received a Bavarian Order of Merit after the end of the war. After the war he worked as a judge in Essen and was a lawyer and the last Jewish "legal consultant" in Cologne for many years . In 1924 he married his wife Mathilde (Hilde). They had two children, Rolf, born in 1925, and Marie-Luise, born in 1929.

He was chairman of the Rhineland Regional Association of the Reich Association of Jewish Front Soldiers and the Moria Lodge of the B'nai B'rith . He was deported to Theresienstadt on June 19, 1943 with his wife Hilde and daughter Marie-Luise. On October 19, 1944 all three were deported to Auschwitz. Only his son Rolf, who later called himself Ralph Wingfield, survived the Holocaust because he was able to flee to England on a Kindertransport .

A stumbling block in Neuwied has been a reminder of his murder since 2013 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} “Our Jewish Neighbors”. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
2. ^ Prof. Robert Weinberg: Life story of Ralph Wingfield. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
3. ^ German-Israeli Friends of Neuwied. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 

literature

• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .