Adolf Richter (entrepreneur)
Friedrich Adolf Richter (born December 12, 1846 in Herford , † December 25, 1910 in Jena ) was a German entrepreneur who became known as the producer of the Anker stone building sets .
Life
Adolf Richter, son of a master baker, received permission from the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1876 to build a chemical-pharmaceutical factory in the royal residence town of Rudolstadt .
After the brothers Otto and Gustav Lilienthal had developed a method in 1880 to produce stable building blocks from quartz sand, powdered lime and linseed oil varnish, they had to sell their invention for lack of money. The entrepreneur Richter acquired the idea for the building blocks and built a new factory in Rudolstadt for production . In 1882 the first construction sets were produced and initially sold as “patent construction sets” with the red squirrel logo developed by Gustav Lilienthal. With the beginning of the new series in 1895, the squirrel was replaced by the anchor, which is now known from other products from Richter.
In Austria-Hungary the toy company was F. Ad. Richter & Cie. kuk court and chamber supplier to the emperor and members of the imperial family as well as court supplier to other European courts. The highest children's rooms were used to play with Anker products .
When Richter died of surgery in 1910, he left a company with offices across Europe, the United States and Japan. His son, Adolf Richter, continued to run the company.
The Richtersche Villa in Rudolstadt was taken over in 1921 by the later main shareholder of the anchor factory, Alfred Eversbusch , from the community of Richters heirs. Due to the expropriation in the German Democratic Republic , the building could only be bought back after the reunification through a right of first refusal by an heiress of Eversbusch.
Honors
Richter received numerous awards for his work, including:
- Grand Ducal Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion
- Royal Prussian Crown Order
- Knight of the Portuguese Order of Christ
- Knight of the Tunisian order of tNishan el Iftikhar
- Knight of the Order of San Marino
- Commerce Council of the Kingdom of Bavaria
- Secret Commerce Councilor of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- kuk purveyor to the court
- royal Bavarian purveyor to the court
- Royal Italian purveyor to the court
- Royal Portuguese purveyor to the court
- Membership of the Paris Academy of Sciences
- Honorary citizen of the city of Rudolstadt
The foreign orders of knights were (at least for the most part) acquired through financial donations.
literature
- Andrea Pühringer-Gräf: Richter, Friedrich Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 521 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Manuela Runge , Bernd Lukasch : Inventor's life. The brothers Otto and Gustav Lilienthal. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0536-1 . (on the long-standing legal dispute between Richter and Lilienthal about the construction kits)
- George F. Hardy: Richter's anchor stone construction kit. (from the English by Claus Ahlers) Self-published , 1994. ( available online as PDF; 7 MB) (English edition from 2014 available online as PDF; 7 MB)
- The Anchor Puzzle Book. 2012.
Digital copies
- JF Procházka: Topographic-statistical schematism of large estates in the kingdom of Bohemia, at the same time address book of all the workers employed by the same officials of the forest personnel, etc . Self-published by JF Procházka, Prague 1891, advertisement section page 181 Digitized version
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in: Apotheker-Zeitung , Volume 31, 1910, p. 168.
- ^ Andrea Pühringer-Gräf: Richter, Friedrich Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 521 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Coats of arms, orders and medals of the company "F. Ad. Richter & Cie. “Rudolstadt. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg at museum-digital .
- ^ Friedrich Adolf Richter. In: Sources and studies for the history of pharmacy, edition 12, Govi-Verlag, 1975, p. 107.
- ↑ Dr. C. Reissig-Hamburg in medical clinic. Weekly for general practitioners. Volume 4, part 1, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1908, p. 849.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Friedrich Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, producer of the Anker stone building sets |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herford |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1910 |
| Place of death | Jena |