Rudolf Moos

Rudolf Moos is a historical spot in Ulm connected with the history of a Jewish family whose life changed under Nazi rule. The family came from Buchau, where Heinrich ran a leather business. Rudolf’s father Alfred became a recognised Ulm lawyer and established a locally known legal practice with wide social connections. Alfred was also Albert Einstein’s second cousin. Born in Ulm in 1910, Rudolf grew up at Promenade 7 with a view of the Ulm Minster tower. He was the youngest of three brothers. With support from relatives and the Veit family, he studied law in Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin and Tübingen. He passed his first major legal examination in spring 1932. Rudolf also joined the Free Scientific Association, a student group that opposed antisemitism at universities. Nazi laws ended his legal training in 1933. Those laws also pushed the family law practice into financial difficulty, before Rudolf found work in a felt-cloth factory. In 1935, Rudolf and his mother moved to Göppingen. His brothers Paul and Richard also faced professional exclusion, illness and death under the pressures of persecution. Small brass Stolpersteine before the family’s former residence commemorate their persecution and displacement during the Holocaust. The story preserves Jewish life in Ulm and family support during crisis.