Heinrich Richter (politician)

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Heinrich Richter

Heinrich Richter (born November 3, 1887 in Helmersen, † March 26, 1961 in Bockenem ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Richter was born in 1887 as the son of a trader. After attending the primary school in Oker an der Havel (1894-1902) and the community school in Hildesheim and Bockenem , he completed an apprenticeship as a printer. He then practiced this profession in various cities in Germany. Around 1905 Richter joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

From 1915 to 1918 Richter took part in the First World War. After his return from the war he married in 1919. From 1924 Richter was a city councilor in Hildesheim.

With the Reichstag election of May 1928 Richter was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the first time , to which he initially belonged until September 1930 as a representative of constituency 16 (South Hanover-Braunschweig). After he had not belonged to parliament in the following three legislative periods, Richter was able to return to the Reichstag on the occasion of the elections in March 1933 , which this time he belonged for almost three months, until June 1933, for his old constituency.

In March 1933 Richter was one of 94 members of parliament who voted against the adoption of the Enabling Act introduced by the Hitler government , which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and which was finally adopted with a majority of 444 to 94 votes.

As a political ostracist, Richter was subsequently unemployed. In early 1934 he got a job as a typesetter at the Elbe-Weser-Verlag. At the end of November 1939 he took a job at the Wetzell rubber works as a worker. On January 1, 1941, Richter returned to the printing industry when he got a job at the Bockenem printing house Eller, where he worked as a typesetter and proofreader.

On August 22, 1944, Richter was taken to the Gestapo prison in Ahlem near Hanover as part of the Grid Action and a few days later transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp , where he saw the end of the National Socialist dictatorship in 1945. Subsequently, Richter was a member of the sub-district executive committee of his party, the district council and the Bockenem city council until shortly before his death.

One of the few available reports about Richter's personality characterizes him as follows: "A well-built man with a deep, melodious voice, which he used calmly but eloquently - an impressive appearance."

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place and date of birth according to the handbook of the Reichstag deputies for the 8th legislative period of the Weimar Republic. Year and place of death according to Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB-Online.
  2. ↑ Hildesheim City Archives: Hildesheim Yearbook for the City and Monastery of Hildesheim , 2000, pp. 129 and 154.
  3. ↑ Hildesheim City Archives: Hildesheim Yearbook for City and Monastery Hildesheim , 2000, p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmersen
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1961
Place of death Bockenem