Gerhard Richter (librarian)

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Gerhard Richter (born March 19, 1898 in Freiberg ; † December 26, 1966 in Dresden ) was a German librarian and the first director of the Dresden mobile library .

Life

Richter came from a wealthy family, his parents were the medical officer and head of the Freiberg city hospital, Kurt Alexander Richter (1867–1937), and his wife Martha Marie, nee. Wolf (1870-1945). After participating in the war in 1917/1918, he studied German, history, French and Latin and passed the state examination in 1924. After a traineeship from April 1925 at the Dresden City Library and Reading Hall , he directed a course on “Foreign Beautiful Literature of Modern Times” at the same position in 1927 as part of a legal clerkship . In February 1928 he was employed as an assistant librarian. In addition to the “Fine Literature and Literary Studies” section, he was responsible for the foreign language department. When Lord Mayor Bernhard Blüher handed over a converted vehicle to the municipal library in 1929, the era of the mobile library in Dresden began, and Richter was entrusted with the management. The reason was that the city could save costs by closing smaller district libraries.

On April 1, 1937, he was given the title of city librarian and joined the party a month later after the membership ban of the NSDAP was relaxed . Gerhard Richter married Dora Lucie Treuner († 1975) in 1939. The mobile library had to cease its service on August 30, 1939, a little later the library bus was converted into an ambulance for use in the Second World War . Eleven years later on the occasion of the III. At the SED party congress in July 1950, a Büssing bus built in 1924 went into service again; on February 13, 1952, a second vehicle went into service with a Citroën that was fetched from the scrapyard and reconditioned by the Dresden transport company . Helga Pietsch was in charge of management , Gerhard Richter remained active in the mobile library until he retired in March 1965.

Richter died in Dresden on Boxing Day in 1966. He was buried in the Trinity Cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

Harry Töpfer (2nd from right) in the mobile library (1970)
  • with Harry Töpfer : The driving libraries of Dresden . In: Der Bibliothekar 9/1955, Issue 10, pp. 598–603.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Arend Flemming, Detlef Tempel: The Dresden mobile library now on the move online . In: BITonline - magazine for library, information and technology . No. 2 , 2001, p. 147 ff . ( Online ).

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SURNAME Richter, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Judge, Kurt Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1966
Place of death Dresden