Friedrich Wilhelm Richter

Birth certificate of Friedrich Wilhelm Richter

Friedrich Wilhelm Richter (born July 29, 1878 in Dresden ; † March 9, 1946 there ) was a German administrative officer and politician .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Richter was born as the son of a bailiff and manor owner. After graduating from high school, he studied law and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Universität Leipzig . In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Leipzig . From 1901 he completed his legal clerkship at the district court of Meißen and the district court of Großenhain , with the administrative authority of Meißen , with the city council in Bautzen and with the general management of the Royal Saxon State Railways . In the following years he made several study trips to the United States and to China, Japan, Java, India and Ceylon. In 1906 he entered the Saxon administrative service as an assessor at the Dresden Police Department. In 1909 he became a government official in the Zittau administration , changed to the same function in the Chemnitz administration in 1913 and since 1917 has been a member of the government at the food office, a department of the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. On December 1, 1918, he was appointed governor (district administrator) in the Zittau district . On July 1, 1924, he took over the management of the superordinate district team in Bautzen . Richter had not joined any party. From July 3, 1929, he was Minister of State of the Interior of the Free State of Saxony in the Bünger cabinet and in the Schieck cabinet . In January 1930 he also took on the role of Minister for Labor and Welfare. As a member of the government, he was also the representative of Saxony to the Reichsrat . Four days after the Reichstag election in March 1933 , he was released on March 10, 1933.

According to his son Johann Christoph Richter, Friedrich Wilhelm Richter worked as an actor in an asset management company and temporarily stayed in Switzerland. Richter was involved in the resistance against Hitler in the vicinity of the then Lord Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , and declared himself ready to be available as a civil advisor to the military in Saxony in the event of a successful Hitler attack . In this context, after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested by the Gestapo in Dresden on September 8, 1944. “A few months later he was sentenced by the People's Court to three years in prison for high treason. He was transferred from the Moabit remand prison to the Brandenburg prison . There he was liberated by the Red Army on April 27, 1945. ”He was unable to recover from the illnesses he had acquired in prison. Nevertheless, he took over the office of President of the Saxon State Audit Office. He died in office at the age of 67.

See also : History of Saxony #The post-war period until the dissolution of the states in the GDR (1945–1952)

literature

• Richter, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1524.

Web links

• Friedrich Wilhelm Richter in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
• Friedrich Wilhelm Richter at the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 30 , 681
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sächsisches Tageblatt of March 19, 1946.