Adolf Richter (pacifist)

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Adolf Richter, in 1876
Grave of Adolf Richter in the main cemetery in Pforzheim

Adolf Richter (born February 1, 1839 in Wiesbaden , † August 13, 1914 in Pforzheim ) was a German chemist and industrialist. He was one of the central figures of the early peace movement in Germany.

Career

Adolf Richter was the son of a Wiesbaden doctor. After eight years of schooling at the grammar school in Elberfeld , he passed his Abitur there and became a chemist. Around 1865 he founded a gold and silver refinery in Pforzheim. There belonged from 1889 to 1901 the city council. From 1879 on he was a member of the International League of Peace and Freedom and since 1896 on the committee of this society.

Shortly after Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Hermann Fried founded the German Peace Society (DFG) in 1892, Richter set up a local group in Pforzheim. From 1900 to spring 1914 he was President of the German Peace Society.

He was also a member of the International Permanent Peace Office in Bern and an honorary member of the Danish and Hungarian Peace Society.

He was buried in the main cemetery in Pforzheim .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Württembergisch Franconia: Yearbook of the Historical Association for Württembergisch Franconia, Volume 82 . Association for Württembergisch Franconia, 1998, ISSN  0084-3067 , OCLC 11735531 , p. 246 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Stefan Appelius: Pacifism in West Germany: the German Peace Society 1945-1968 . G. Mainz, 1999, ISBN 3-89653-461-0 , p. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ kontextwochenzeitung.de : KONTEXT: Wochenzeitung - Issue 168 - Die Friedenshetzer in Stuttgart , accessed on February 6, 2017
  4. ^ Friedrich-Karl Scheer: The German Peace Society (1892-1933): Organization, ideology, political goals: a contribution to the history of pacifism in Germany . Haag + Herchen, 1983, ISBN 3-88129-622-0 , pp. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Helmut Mauermann: The International Peace Office 1892 to 1950 . Silberburg-Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-925344-78-0 , p. 124 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and industrialist, pacifist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1914
Place of death Pforzheim