Ernst von Richter

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Ernst Friedrich Hermann Richter , von Richter since 1908 (born January 10, 1862 in Berlin ; † February 4, 1935 there ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician ( German People's Party ).

origin

His parents were the Secret Government Councilor Ludwig Ferdinand Richter (* September 17, 1805 - March 15, 1881) and his wife Marie Margarete Henriette Koch (* August 21, 1827 - January 17, 1862).

Life

He attended the Luisenstädtische Gymnasium in Berlin. After graduating from high school in 1879, he studied law and political science for two semesters at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , then at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . There he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1880 . Under his “excellently managed” seniorate , the old relationships were broken and the connection to the blue circle established. After eight scales , he went back to Berlin as an inactive in the winter semester 1881/82, where he passed the trainee examination on October 6, 1882 . From October 1883 he served as a one-year volunteer with the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 24 in Neuruppin , whose reserve officer he later became. After passing the assessor examination on February 29, 1888 and long trips to Belgium and England , he was a court assessor in Berlin and Gransee .

In 1891 he changed to the administrative service of the Crown Prussia . In 1892 he married Clara von Blum from Lüneburg. She gave him a son and a daughter. In Minden , he was in 1895 Regierungsrat . In 1897 he was transferred to the High Presidium of the Province of East Prussia . In 1900 he was called up as a laborer in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In 1901 he became a go. Government councilor and lecturing council, appointed Upper Government Council in 1904 .

In Gotha , he was Minister of State for the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha from May 19, 1905 to May 5, 1914 , which he also represented in the Federal Council . With the award of the Grand Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , he received the hereditary nobility in 1908 . Because of a conflict with Duke Carl Eduard , he resigned from his office in 1914 at his own request.

During the First World War , he initially worked in the war economy and in the German Red Cross . Since 1917 Chief President of the Prussian Province of Hanover , he retained office in the Free State of Prussia after the November Revolution , but was dismissed in 1920 because of his right-wing sentiments. When the German People's Party entered the Prussian government in 1921, Richter became the Prussian State and Finance Minister of Finance in the state government led by Prime Minister Otto Braun on November 7, 1921 . He knew not only how to get the finances through the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 in a satisfactory way, but also how to accumulate considerable savings. When he left office on January 6, 1925, the accounts of the budget showed a surplus of 240 million Reichsmarks .

family

Richter married Klara Marie Georgine Adolfine von Blum on August 20, 1892 in Minden (born April 18, 1872). The couple had several children:

  • Elisabeth Klara Marie (born August 5, 1893) ∞ 1916 Baron Hans Heinz von Wangenheim (born June 30, 1889 - † August 7, 1981), owner of the slate castle estate in Sonneborn
  • Werner Ludwig Wilhelm (born January 24, 1896)

MP

Previously a leading member of the National Liberal Party , he became a co-founder of the German People's Party in 1919 . In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly from 1919 to 1921 . As a member of parliament for Hanover-South and later Düsseldorf-West, he then sat in the Prussian state parliament until 1928 . After leaving as minister and ending his state parliament mandate, he lived as an administrative lawyer in Berlin.

Honors

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxon Parliamentarians 1919–1945. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222), Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 295.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909 p.630 , 1919 p.640

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 255.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Obituary in Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 1st edition, 1936.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses: at the same time the nobility register of the associations united in the honorary protection of the German nobility, 1920, p.918
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Ernst Friedrich Hermann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician, Thuringian and Prussian ministers of state
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1935
Place of death Berlin