Walter Mosbach

Walter Mosbach (born February 27, 1899 ; died 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German dentist and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Walter Mosbach took part in the First World War as a soldier and received the Iron Cross there. He later lived as a dentist in Frankfurt am Main . He was senior medical officer and school dentist until he was dismissed from these two offices as a Jew in 1933 under the law to restore the civil service . Due to his participation in the war, he was allowed to continue practicing as a dentist with his own practice until 1938. In 1938 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp , but was released six weeks later. His practice was closed, but he was allowed to continue working in another practice, although only treating Jews. His predecessor had been taken to a concentration camp.

In 1941 Mosbach was arrested again. He belonged to the Microscopic Association , a discussion group of opponents of the Nazi regime, to which the doctor Erna Oeser also belonged. The Gestapo accused him of listening to so-called English enemy broadcasts and of spreading their news in the association. In addition, he had spoken out against euthanasia in a letter to the Ministry of the Interior . After three and a half years in prison , he was taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his parents had already been murdered. Mosbach survived the concentration camp and was liberated in 1945 . The Soviet Army then briefly employed him as a doctor.

He then returned to Frankfurt. After he was initially assigned a practice, which he had to vacate after a lawsuit by the previous owner, he later built a new life in Alt-Fechenheim . He died in Frankfurt am Main in 1971. He testified as a witness in the first Auschwitz trial.

His fate was part of the memorandum Ärztliches Schicksal under Persecution from 1933 to 1945 in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach . However, since the State Dental Association of Hesse refused to participate in the memorandum, the Hessian Medical Association stepped in for his biography .

literature

Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Caris-Petra Heidel (Hrsg.): “… Totally done with National Socialism?” The never-ending history of dentistry under National Socialism . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-938304-21-1 , p. 176-178 .
Siegmund Drexler, Siegmund Kalinski, Hans Mausbach: Medical fate under persecution, 1933–1945 in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach. A memorandum . Ed .: State Medical Association Hessen. 2nd Edition. Verlag für Akademische Schriften VAS, Frankfurt a. M. 1990, ISBN 3-88864-025-3 , pp. 54 f .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): “… Totally finished with National Socialism?” The never-ending history of dentistry under National Socialism . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-938304-21-1 , p. 176-178 .
↑ Susanne Strasbourg (processing): Inventory 461: Public Prosecutor's Office at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court criminal proceedings ./. Robert Mulka et al. a. (1st Auschwitz Trial) . Ed .: Hessisches Landesarchiv - Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv . Az. 4 Ks 2/63 HHStAW Dept. 461, No. 37638 / 1-456 ( PDF; 604 kB, accessed on March 6, 2017 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Mosbach, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dentist and victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1899
DATE OF DEATH	1971
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[total-1] Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): “… Totally finished with National Socialism?” The never-ending history of dentistry under National Socialism . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-938304-21-1 , p. 176-178 .

[2] Susanne Strasbourg (processing): Inventory 461: Public Prosecutor's Office at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court criminal proceedings ./. Robert Mulka et al. a. (1st Auschwitz Trial) . Ed .: Hessisches Landesarchiv - Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv . Az. 4 Ks 2/63 HHStAW Dept. 461, No. 37638 / 1-456 ( PDF; 604 kB, accessed on March 6, 2017 ).