Richard Ernst Moser

Richard Ernst Moser (born May 13, 1885 in Hamburg ; † April 5, 1967 ibid) was a Hamburg merchant who posthumously became one of the righteous among the June 11, 2002 because of his rescue of his Jewish employee Wilhelm Bernstein and his brother-in-law Philipp Rappaport Peoples was awarded.

Life

After graduating from school with a school leaving certificate as a so-called one-year volunteer , studying in Turin and completing one year of military service in Berlin, which he completed as a lieutenant, Moser completed an apprenticeship at the Vereinsbank in Hamburg, which he then served until 1919. In the First World War he was a soldier from 1914 to 1918. In 1919 he founded his own import and export company "RE Moser" for fruits, seeds and other foods based in Hamburg. He expanded this into an internationally active wholesaler with 30 employees in the early 1930s. For his long-time Jewish colleague Wilhelm Bernstein, he first obtained the release from prison in the concentration camp and later enabled him to emigrate to America via Holland. He provided material support to his parents who remained in Hamburg until they were deported.

In 1927 he had a one-family villa built in Hamburg-Klein-Flottbek by the Hamburg Jewish architects Hans and Oskar Gerson . He temporarily hid his Jewish brother-in-law Philipp Rappaport and his family from Nazi persecution on his estate in Vietow, Kogel near Zarrentin am Schaalsee , in Mecklenburg, so that they all survived.

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SURNAME	Moser, Richard Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hamburg merchant and Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 5th 1967
Place of death	Hamburg