Gustav Richter (politician, 1833)

Gustav Richter (1833-1884). Photography by Otto Schmidt, Tharand. around 1874

Gustav Esaias Richter (born January 27, 1833 in Freiberg , † August 11, 1884 in Lindenhof near Neucoswig ) was a professor at the royal Saxon Forest Academy Tharandt and a conservative politician . He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and the Reichstag .

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Richter attended grammar school in the Erzgebirge mountain town of Freiberg, where his father Esaias Julius Richter worked as the royal Saxon mountain magazine administrator and owned the Unterhof. After a further visit to the trade school in Plauen , he completed an agricultural training on the manors Reichenbach and Koitzsch . In 1852/1853 he studied at the Tharandt Forestry Academy. After two years as manager of the Klingenberg manor , he took over the Obergersdorf manor from the family's possession, but sold it a short time later. He was now a valuer of the Saxon mortgage insurance company .

In September 1862 he married Lene Therese Olt, daughter of a paper manufacturer in Oberschlema . After the death of his father-in-law Carl Gustav Olt († 1864), he took over his property and paper factory , but also sold them after a short time. He was one of the co-founders of the Agricultural Credit Association in the Kingdom of Saxony and its deputy director in 1866/67. In this function he practiced extensive lecturing activities in agricultural associations and in 1867 became deputy secretary of the agricultural district association of the Ore Mountains. During this time he moved to Chemnitz , where at Easter 1868 he took up a teaching position for economics and agricultural management at the trade school . In October 1870 he was appointed professor at the Tharandt Forest Academy, where he a. a. Lectures on general economics, finance, meadow cultivation and the encyclopedia of agriculture held. In 1882 he also took over lectures in economics at the Freiberg Bergakademie .

Richter was an elected member of the state culture council from 1872 to 1883 and was delegated by it to the German agricultural council in Berlin. In 1873 he was co-founder and committee chairman of the Agricultural Fire Insurance Company in the Kingdom of Saxony . He acted as editor for the notices of the agricultural district association in the Erzgebirge , also from 1870 to 1873 for the official journal for the agricultural associations.

In 1869/70 he represented the 36th rural electoral district in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament . From 1873 until his death he represented the 27th rural constituency. From 1875 to 1877 he held the office of deputy second secretary, from 1877 to 1881 the office of second secretary and from 1881 until his death the office of first secretary of the Chamber. From January 1874 until his resignation on April 18, 1882, he was also a member of the 7th Saxon constituency for the German Reich Party of the Reichstag in Berlin. There he held the office of secretary in 1881/82. Richter died in August 1884 in the Lindenhof mental hospital near Neucoswig.

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 449-450.

Web links

• Gustav Richter in the database of members of the Reichstag