Willy Rudolf Foerster

Willy Rudolf Foerster

Willy Rudolf Foerster (15 July 1905 – 19 February 1966) was a German engineer and industrialist in Japan who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. He founded the F. & K. Engineering Company[1] and the German-Japanese Machine Tool Company, called Nichidoku Kikai Seisakujo, in Tokyo.[2] Foerster was a leading industrialist[3] and one of the richest foreigners in Japan.[4]

  1. ^ Jochem (2017b), pp. 40–42.
  2. ^ Jochem (2017a), p. 15.
  3. ^ Jochem (2017a), p. 16.
  4. ^ Jochem (2017a), p. 187.

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