Moise Rişcuţia

Moise Rişcuţia was oficer in ww1 in AH army, in 1918 comander-in-chief of Romanian National Guard from Arad, romanian army oficer after 1919.

About his career, here http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Moise_Ri%C5%9Fcu%C5%A3ia

This post has been edited by 21 inf on October 12, 2010 07:18 pm

Excellent, 21 inf, really interesting!
Do you have other documents and biographies?

yes, i have some documents belonging to moise riscutia.

Cpt Moise Riscutia was in the first group of Romanian soldiers ex-K.u.K. who became members of Romanian National Guard. The others were the followers (I find this text):

"Celdintâi juramânt s-a facut în 5 Noiemvrie seara la orele 5 în biroul advocatial al lui Stefan Cicio Pop si l-au prestat urmatorii:
Sublocotenent dr. Cornel Albu din Arad; subloc. Nicolae Ardelean din Chitighaz; subloc. Dimitrie Bodea din Arad; elev plutonier Traian Mager din Halmagiu; caopral Ioan Bucur din Toracul Mic; capitan Victor Cerna din Cincul Mare; elev Traian Chirila din Socodor; plutonir Isaia Crisan din Botfeiu; capitan preot militar Vasile Debu din Cincul Mic; subloc. Ioan Debustean din Odvos; subloc. Ilie Ispan din Curiiciu; plutonier Petru Lustrea din Bârsa; medic locot dr. Adam Iancu din Faget; medic slegar Axentie Iancu din Faget; subloc. Mihaiu Vortinu; elev Dimitrie Memetea din Chisineu; subloc. Ilie Miclean din Aciua; subloc. Ioan Martin din Seceani; plutonier Ioan Neamtu din Guravaii; locotenent Petre Oprea din Arad; locot. Dr. Adrian Popescu din Nabad; subloc. Ioan Pescariu din Maderat; subloc. Gheorghe Popoviciu din Chisineu; elev Radu Popoviciu din Chisineu; capitan Moise Riscutia; locot. Romul Rimbas din Brad; capitan Teodor Serb din Arad, sublocot. Sabin VATianu din Arad; locot. Stefan Neamtu din Afris si civil Remus Moldovan din Arad.
Dupa savârsirea ceremonialului, dsoara Any Pop-fiica mai mare a casei, atârna cu mâna proprie pe pieptul fiecarui gardist funda de matase treicolora."

Yes, indeed. Is the text from Monografia tinutului Halmagiului by Traian Mager?

Interesting, indeed! Didn't he suffer from communist oppression?

As far as I know from the discussions with his daughter-in-law, he was not imprisoned by comunists.

Well, that's too nice! Not even harrassed a little? Because his age wasn't "that big" to be left alone and AFAIK the communists didn't have any respect for the personalities, but quite the other way around...

Well, when he was still an oficer, he often had conflicts with superiors or with guys who received "bonuses" on his work. He was a tough guy, saying what he was thinking, so he was a uncomfortable subordinate, being transfered in a lot of different garisons cos his behaviour toward superiors.

In 1919 some other superior oficers were credited on the base of the actions of Moise Riscutia, those guys being rewarded with higher ranks in the army and decorations. In the personal archive of Moise Riscutia, donated few years ago to Arhivele Statului Arad, are a series of petition Moise Riscutia wrote trying to show that he was to be rewarded, not some high ranking oficers, who just "picked up" the benefits of his achievements.

Maybe because of this very stuborness and this lack of rewarding he was looked by the comunists not a "burgeois", not against "working class", maybe on the principle "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Who knows, is just my suposition...

Yes, indeed, the text was wrote by Traian Mager. I found it, and I didn't know the title.
I found in another book that he was arrested in Arad by Hungarian bolsheviks.

Just curious: daughter-in-law means he had a son. Was he in the Army, as well?

Indeed Moise Riscutia had a son, but he was not a military man. His name was Cantemir Riscutia and he became probably one of the most famous romanian professor of anthropology. He died in early 2000 and was buried in Arad.

Thanks!
I googled the name and look at one particular result:
Râmaru?!?!?!

Yes, profesor Cantemir Riscutia was the man in charge with examining the case "Râmaru".

He also looked for the remains of Nicolae Balcescu at Palermo graveyard. He could not identify the remains of this 1848 revolutionary so the resting place of Balcescu is not known exactly nowadays.

Cantemir Riscutia also researched a lot in Romania about anthropology and he was for some years profesor of anthropology in Western Germany (former R.F.G.) as he spoke fluently hochdeutsch.

This post has been edited by 21 inf on December 05, 2010 08:48 pm

So, if he was allowed to go to Federal Germany, he was both respected and trusted by the "new" regime...