Karl Richter (pharmacist)

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Karl Richter (born September 6, 1866 in Bad Hall , † April 21, 1927 in Wels ) was an Austrian pharmacist and politician.

Karl Richter was born as the son of the Bad Hall pharmacist Karl Richter and his wife Johanna Rieder from Vienna, although his mother died shortly after birth. While his father later moved to Wels, Karl Richter jun. the Stiftsgymnasium Seitenstetten . Richter also worked in his father's pharmacy, the court pharmacy in Salzburg, and completed his military service in Bratislava in 1880 . In 1886/87 he studied pharmacy at the Universities of Vienna and Bern, in 1889 he graduated as Mag. Pharm. After the death of his father in 1891, he took over his father's pharmacy “Zum Schwarzen Adler” in Wels and ran it until 1924. From 1912 to 1923 he was also the managing director of the company CR Wels Adler-Apotheke and Sanitätsgesellschaft Medizinaldrogen-Großhandlung GmbH. He was a member of the board of directors of the Städtische Sparkasse, president of the electricity company and a member of the local railway company Wels.

He initially worked as a judge for the German Freedom Party and was later a member of the German People's Party . He was elected to the local council in 1896 and was a member of the local council from 1899. From 1905 to 1919 he held the office of deputy mayor and from 1919 to 1924 he was mayor of Wels, where he was particularly involved in school issues and medical services. He was also a member of the provisional state assembly between 1918 and 1919 .

Richter was married to Luise Nebuschka, a teacher from Wels, from 1894. He handed over the “Zum Schwarzen Adler” pharmacy to his son Hubert in 1924 and died of cancer three years later.

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SURNAME Judge, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pharmacist and politician (DVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hall
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1927
Place of death Wels (city)