{{Infobox person | name = Edmund Moster | image = Edmund Moster.jpg | image_size = 130px | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1873|08|24}} | birth_place = Sveti Ivan Žabno, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|1942|||1873|08|24|df=yes}} | death_place = Jasenovac, Independent State of Croatia | death_cause = Murdered in the Holocaust | occupation = Entrepreneur | relatives = | spouse = Klara Breitenstein | children = | parents = Hinko Moster<br>Terezija Lederer }}
'''Edmund Moster''' (24 August 1873 – 1942) was a Croatian Jewish<ref name="žz">{{harvtxt|Snješka Knežević|2011|p=42}}</ref> entrepreneur, industrialist, inventor and co-founder of the "Penkala-Moster Company" (now TOZ) in Zagreb.<ref name=jl>{{cite news|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/sto-bi-zagreb-bio-bez-zidova--oni-su-gradu-dali-vodovod--tramvaj-i--505-s-crtom-/926669/?foto=4|title=Što bi Zagreb bio bez Židova: Oni su gradu dali vodovod, tramvaj i '505 s crtom'|publisher=Jutarnji list|work=www.jutarnji.hr|language=hr}}</ref>
== Biography == thumb|left|220px|"Penkala-Moster" pen and pencil company in Zagreb Moster was born and raised to a Jewish family of Hinko Moster and Terezija Lederer, with nine siblings in Sveti Ivan Žabno near Križevci. His father was much respected tradesman and steam mill owner in Sveti Ivan Žabno. The Moster family's wealth had been earned by diligence and shrewdness. Moster was married to Klara Breitenstein. In 1911, Moster and his brother Mavro collaborated with Slavoljub Eduard Penkala to open the "Penkala-Moster" pen and pencil company in Zagreb. Moster and his brother owned 66,6% of the company, and Penkala 33,3%.<ref name=zmg1>{{in lang|hr}} Zagreb, moj grad; Jura Gašparac; Eduard Slavoljub Penkala, Hrvatski sudionik civilizacijskog napretka Europe; February 2008., broj 10; p. 27.</ref><ref name=hrt>{{cite news|url=http://www.hrt.hr/index.php?id=vijesti-clanak&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=149786&cHash=b4e117ca8b|title=Penkala patentirao mehaničku olovku|publisher=Croatian Radiotelevision|work=www.hrt.hr|language=hr}}</ref> Moster would later open another company, in Berlin, Germany, which was headed by his other brother, Alexander Moster.<ref name=hrt/><ref name=zmg2>{{in lang|hr}} Zagreb, moj grad; Jura Gašparac; Eduard Slavoljub Penkala, izumitelj automatske mehaničke olovke; December 2007., broj 9; p. 21.</ref> Moster held 3 patents: improvements in refill lead pencils in 1916, improvements in or relating to paper-board heels for shoes and boots in 1936 and improvements in or relating to bottle closures in 1938.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Edmund Moster - Assignee|publisher=Patentmaps|url=http://www.patentmaps.com/assignee/Edmund_Moster_1.html|access-date=2013-01-01|archive-date=2014-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022044023/http://www.patentmaps.com/assignee/Edmund_Moster_1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Moster later developed the production of the Winner Records in Croatia. As a Jew, during World War II, Moster was deported and imprisoned at the Jasenovac concentration camp where he was killed in 1942.<ref name="žz"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5865656&language=en|title=Edmund Moster|publisher=Yad Vashem|work=Pages of testimony by Egon Moster (nephew) and Dolores Ivanuša}}</ref> His brother Bernard was also killed during the Holocaust in 1942, at Rab concentration camp.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5865658&language=en|title=Bernard Moster|publisher=Yad Vashem|work=Pages of testimony by Egon Moster (nephew)}}</ref> After the war "Penkala-Moster Company" was nationalised and renamed to "TOZ Company" by the regime of newly established SFR Yugoslavia.<ref name=jl/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.novilist.hr/Vijesti/Zagreb/Umjesto-Nade-Dimic-u-Zagrebu-nice-jos-jedan-shopping-centar|title=Umjesto "Nade Dimić" u Zagrebu niče još jedan shopping centar|publisher=Novi list|work=www.novilist.hr|language=hr|access-date=2013-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030125603/http://www.novilist.hr/Vijesti/Zagreb/Umjesto-Nade-Dimic-u-Zagrebu-nice-jos-jedan-shopping-centar|archive-date=2014-10-30|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== * Slavoljub Eduard Penkala
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==Bibliography== {{Refbegin|30em}} * {{cite book|last=Snješka Knežević|first=Aleksander Laslo|title=Židovski Zagreb|year=2011|publisher=AGM, Židovska općina Zagreb|location=Zagreb|isbn=978-953-174-393-8}} {{refend}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moster, Edmund}} Category:1873 births Category:1942 deaths Category:People from Križevci Category:People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Category:Croatian Jews who died in the Holocaust Category:Jews from Austria-Hungary Category:Croats in Austria-Hungary Category:Croatian businesspeople Category:Croatian civilians killed in World War II Category:People who died in Jasenovac concentration camp Category:Croatian people executed in Nazi concentration camps