Martin Richter (politician, 1886)

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Martin Richter (born February 23, 1886 in Dresden ; † October 18, 1954 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the state parliament of Saxony .

Life

Richter came from a working class family in Dresden. As a child, he had to give birth to milk before school started, thus contributing to the low income of the father to support the family with five siblings at times. After finishing school he worked as a factory worker. In February 1906 he entered the Deacon House Stephansstift in Hanover and was trained as a deacon , nurse and social worker. He then looked after the sick, migrant workers, prisoners and those released. In 1907 he joined the Christian Social Party.

From 1908 to 1909 he did military service in an infantry regiment in Königsberg, was released early after an accident and briefly found a job as a medical assistant in the Samaritan Association in Dresden. During the First World War he was used as a medic and after the war he was released as a medical deputy sergeant. After the war he became active in the Christian trade union movement. He became a member of the German National People's Party in 1919, but left the party in 1928 and joined the movement of the “Christian Social People's Service” (CSVD). At the same time he got a job in the State Prisoners and Released Persons Welfare in Dresden, from which he was removed by the Nazis in the spring of 1933 for "political unreliability".

In January 1934 Hugo Hahn entrusted him with the organizational development of the Pastors' Emergency Association. He became travel secretary and full-time managing director of the State Brotherhood of the Confessing Church of Saxony. He took part in all four confessional synods - in 1934 in Barmen and Dahlem, 1935 in Augsburg and 1936 in Bad Oeynhausen - and as a member of the state brotherhood council he had traveled for years through the confessional congregations in Saxony to inform them about the latest developments in the dispute with the profascist “Germans Christians ”. He was arrested several times, and house searches and interrogations took place again and again.

During the Second World War , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medical sergeant in July 1941 . He performed his service in various hospitals in Saxony and in western Germany. Judge was u. a. in the Zeithain infirmary and reported resistance circles about the dire conditions. In April 1945 he fell into French captivity and worked in the military hospital in Weißenau . He was released on June 26, 1945. After discussing the church situation with Hugo Hahn, Friedrich Delekat and Bishop Wurm in Stuttgart, he arrived in Dresden on July 19, 1945.

On July 21, 1945, he and Hugo Hickmann were among the founders of the CDU in Dresden. He became a member of the People's Solidarity , the FDGB , the DSF and the Kulturbund . From August 1945 to February 1946 he was regional manager and from the end of 1945 assessor of the CDU regional executive committee in Saxony and from October 1945 to 1946 first chairman of the CDU district association Dresden-Stadt.

From October 1945 to 1950 he also acted as chairman of the people's solidarity in Saxony. From 1946 to 1950 he was mayor of Dresden and head of the department for work and social welfare. From March 1951 to July 1952 he was a member of the CDU parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament and from August 1952 to October 1954 as a member of the Dresden district assembly . At the same time he was a member of the CDU district committee in Dresden and a city councilor in Dresden. As a publishing director, he promoted the development of the daily newspaper Die Union .

Grave of Martin Richter in the Bühlau cemetery

From 1948 he was a member of the Synodal Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church. He was also a member of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Synod of the Saxon Regional Church. In September 1954 he took part as a delegate at the 7th party congress of the CDU in Weimar.

Richter died at the age of 68 and was buried in the Dresden-Bühlau cemetery.

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 713 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Mike Schmeitzner, Clemens Vollnhals, Francesca Weil (eds.): From Stalingrad to the SBZ: Saxony 1943 to 1949 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 9783525369722 , p. 348.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Confessing Church in Action . In: Neue Zeit , June 26, 1975, p. 5.
  2. ^ Union friend Martin Richter † . In: Neue Zeit, October 20, 1954, p. 3.
  3. ^ Farewell to Martin Richter . In: Neue Zeit, October 24, 1954, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1954
Place of death Dresden