Erich Richter

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Erich Bernhard Richter (born May 13, 1908 in Leipzig , † December 2, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), journalist and radio historian.

Life

Richter, son of a working-class family, learned the trade of machine fitter and toolmaker. In 1922 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and then worked as an association functionary in Saxony: from 1923 to 1929 he was a member of the sub-district management of the KJVD Leipzig, 1929/30 secretary of the KJVD district of Eastern Saxony. At the end of the 1920s he worked as a journalist and was responsible for the youth pages of the Dresden KPD newspaper Arbeiterstimme . After 1930 he was secretary of the entire KJVD district of Saxony , then an employee of the KPD sub-district leadership in Leipzig and wrote political comments for various company newspapers. Richter was a member of the KPD since 1925.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Richter was active in the communist resistance. In 1934/35 he attended the International Lenin School of the Comintern and in 1935 took part in the VII World Congress of the Comintern. Back in Germany, Richter published illegal anti-fascist newspapers from the end of 1935 and worked illegally in Leipzig and the Ruhr area . In 1937 he emigrated to France and later to Czechoslovakia , where he served as second head of the KPD section south-west (Silesia, Saxony, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt). In 1939 he fled to England by plane . There he worked as a machine builder, toolmaker and dishwasher.

In 1946 Richter returned to Germany and became a member of the SED and its state leadership in Saxony . Subsequently, he was department head of the SED district board in Leipzig and secretary for personnel policy and first secretary of the FDGB district board in Leipzig. In 1949/50 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Leipzig (successor to Horst Sindermann ). From 1951 to 1959 he was successively deputy editor-in-chief of the Sächsische Zeitung in Dresden , editor-in-chief of the newspaper Freie Presse in Zwickau and the newspaper Das Volk in Erfurt . From 1959 to 1964 he was director of the Leipzig radio station and then until 1967 employee of the State Committee for Broadcasting . There he was entrusted with setting up a radio history documentation and research department. From 1967 Richter was head of the radio history editor and editor in charge of the magazine Contributions to the History of Radio (BGR).

Richter was also a member of the central management of the Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters and the Peace Council of the GDR .

Honors

Richter received the Karl Marx Order (1988) and the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1983).

His urn was on the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the graves plant for the victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime buried.

Fonts (selection)

  • Development stages of the German Democratic Broadcasting Corporation . Part I, In: BGR 4 (1970), Heft 2, pp. 5-34; Part II, In: BGR 4 (1970), Heft 3, pp. 5-71; Part III, In: BGR 4 (1970), Heft 4, pp. 5-40; Part IV, In: BGR 5 (1971), Heft 1, pp. 14-51 and Part V, In: BGR 5 (1971), Heft 2, pp. 5-46.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District delegate conference in Leipzig . In: Neues Deutschland , December 7, 1949, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Erich Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED), journalist and radio historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1989
Place of death Berlin