Moser, Kurt

Kurt Moser was born on August 1, 1891 in Kolberg/Pomerania as the son of the grain merchant Albert Moses and his wife Julie née Lubszynski under the family name "Moses". He had 5 brothers: Arthur, Georg, Ernst, Fritz and Günther. Kurt Moses studied medicine in Berlin and Greifswald. In World War I he served as a staff physician on the Western Front, and because of multiple war injuries he received the Iron Cross II Class. After the end of the war, he specialized in gynecology and disease control. In 1922 he and his brothers changed the family name to "Moser". For a few years Kurt Moser was in the service of the police chief of Berlin, then he moved to Crossen an der Oder and practiced there until 1930. His widowed mother Julie lived with him until she died in 1929. Kurt Moser moved to Berlin to a 2½-room apartment at Bayerischer Platz 4, Gartenhaus, first floor. One room served as a practice, Kurt Moser lived in the second room, and his housekeeper and practice assistant, Fräulein Selma Prinz, born in 1879, also of Jewish origin, lived in the half room. Kurt Moser did not marry, he supported his blind unmarried brother Günther, who had been unemployed since 1933 and lived at Rosenheimer Strasse 30. His brother Ernst had become a dentist and lived with his family at Bayreuther Straße 27/28, his brother Fritz lived as a subtenant at Prinzregentenstraße 7. In 1938 Kurt Moser's license to practice medicine expired, he was only allowed to treat Jewish patients as a "Krankenbehandler". In 1939 he was arrested for the first time, but was released after interrogation. On November 21, 1942, the Gestapo wanted to arrest him in his apartment, but only met the housekeeper Selma Prinz there. She was able to warn Kurt Moser and his brother Fritz, and both went underground. On June 6, 1942, his brother Fritz was denounced by his landlady and arrested in Deutsch Wusterhausen. The landlady also denounced Kurt Moser, and during an escape attempt he was shot, but was able to have the injury healed in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. He survived a suicide attempt before being deported to Auschwitz on the 40th Osttransport on August 4, 1943. The date of his death is unknown.