Gert Richter

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Gert Richter (born February 12, 1933 in Erfenschlag ; † February 16, 2015 in Chemnitz ) was a German historian and publisher .

life and work

After finishing school, Gert Richter first completed an apprenticeship as an electrical mechanic . He then worked as a pioneer leader and qualified further in distance learning and direct study courses to become a lower level teacher, specialist history teacher and graduate historian. After completing his studies, Richter was a senior research assistant in the Pedagogy, Psychology, Friendship Pioneer Training Section of the Ernst Schneller University of Education in Zwickau , where he was involved in the training of pioneer leaders and teachers. In 1971 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with the dissertation A On the role and importance of local history associations for the research and presentation of the bourgeois home history . He worked on dissertation B on the topic of the development and shaping of local politics of the Communist Party of Germany in Chemnitz from 1918/19 to 1929 , which he successfully defended in 1981 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1981 to 1994 he was director of the Karl-Marx-Stadt and Chemnitz city archives . During this time he presented several publications on the regional historiographic history of the 19th and 20th centuries, on the unification of the KPD and SPD to form the SED in the Annaberg district , on selected problems of the communist child and youth movement and on the history of the GDR. Gert Richter was an editorial member of the regional history contributions from the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , which u. a. have been published by the Karl-Marx-Stadt city archive.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Richter founded the Heimatland Sachsen publishing house in Chemnitz-Erfenschlag in 1990, together with his eldest son and the bookseller Gottfried Müller (1921–2013) , which specializes in regional writings, particularly on the history of the city of Chemnitz .

At the beginning of May 1991, as director of the Chemnitz City Archives, he headed the conference of local chronicles in Chemnitz with over 100 participants.

In the 1990s he was chairman of the Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein e. V., whose newsletters he published from 1992. In 2002/2003 he was President of the Rotary Club in Chemnitz.

He was a member of the historical commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

Works (selection)

  • Chemnitz as it was , Chemnitz 1992
  • Chemnitz Homeland Atlas , Chemnitz 1993
  • Chemnitz memories 1945 , Chemnitz 1995
  • Chemnitz, the Saxon Manchester , Chemnitz 1996
  • (Ed.): On the establishment of the first cotton machine spinning mill in Saxony . Articles and documents. 200 years of the first cotton machine spinning mill in Saxony, Chemnitz 1999.
  • Chemnitz memories 1945. A documentation in words and pictures about the destruction of Chemnitz in the Second World War . 2nd Edition. Chemnitz: Verlag Heimatland Sachsen. 2001. ISBN 3-910186-173
  • with Thomas Morgenstern: Old and New Town Hall of Chemnitz. Munich, Berlin 2000 (DKV Art Guide No. 547).

literature

  • Judge, Gert . In: Regional historical contributions from the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , no. 1, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1979, p. 90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning a former city historian. In: Freie Presse from February 28, 2015 (accessed on February 28, 2015).
  2. ^ Obituaries and obituaries in the Free Press.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfenschlag
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2015
Place of death Chemnitz