Oscar Emil Walser
* 7. July 1872, † 11. April 1959
Bank employee
Rises to the position of bank clerk in Basel and becomes an authorised signatory. Marries Fridolina Schmid in 1915; the marriage remains childless, lives temporarily in Lugano. Supports the family financially, but is unwilling to pay for Robert Walser's upkeep in the Herisau mental asylum and, after Lisa Walser's death in 1944, applies for the guardianship to be cancelled.
Literary traces in Geschwister Tanner (“ Spezialist im Börsenfach”) (1907).
From: Robert Walser-Handbuch, ed. by Lucas Marco Gisi, 2015, p. 16