Johann Sophian Christian Richter

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Johann Sophian Christian Richter

Johann Sophian Christian Richter (born January 16, 1875 Bayreuth ; † February 17, 1951 in Burgwindheim ) was a German politician ( center ).

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Richter was born the son of a master tailor. He attended elementary school in Bayreuth from 1882 to 1886 , then the district secondary school in Bayreuth and from 1892 to 1894 the industrial school in Nuremberg. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Technical University in Munich . From 1896 to 1898 he worked as a customs intern in Hof in Bavaria and Nuremberg. From 1898 to 1906 he worked as the main customs office assistant in Simbach and Nuremberg. In 1902 he married. On February 1, 1906, Richter became Chief Tax Controller. On July 20, 1918, he became a tax inspector in Landau in the Palatinate .

In January 1912 Richter was elected as a candidate of the Center Party for the constituency Pfalz 5 (Germersheim-Bergzabern) in the Reichstag of the Empire , to which he belonged until the November Revolution of 1918. In January 1919 Richter was elected to the Weimar National Assembly as candidate of the center for constituency 27 (Palatinate) , in which he sat until the meeting of the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in June 1920. From 1919 he was suspected of separatism in the Palatinate. On April 23, 1923 he was transferred to the main customs office in Nuremberg, did not comply with this order and was subjected to official criminal proceedings. In the summer of 1923 he is said to have worked in the French customs service in the occupied Palatinate. He escaped the preliminary investigation for treason through the amnesty of the London Agreement. After that he lived in Wiesbaden .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 96 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250); compare also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1015-1018.
  2. ↑ Administration and politics in the occupied Palatinate during the Weimar Republic, Helmut Gembries, p. 465

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SURNAME Judge, Johann Sophian Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1951
Place of death Burgwindheim