Max Richter (Ministerial Officer)

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Max Richter (born December 26, 1856 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † May 11, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German ministerial official. He was Undersecretary of State in the Reich Office of the Interior and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German Potash Indicate .

Life

Richter was born the son of a cantor in Königsberg and attended the municipal secondary school . After graduating from school, he began an apprenticeship as a businessman. He passed the humanistic high school high school diploma and began studying law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the winter semester of 1875/76 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . After taking the legal traineeship in 1879, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. He initially worked at various local and regional courts and at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court . In 1882 he moved to the state administration. From 1891 he worked in the Reich Office of the Interior in Berlin. Richter was sent as Reich Commissioner to the world exhibitions in Chicago in 1893 and Paris in 1900 .

In 1902 he became director and head of department in the Reich Office of the Interior as well as authorized representative of the Federal Council and member of the Imperial Disciplinary Court. 1905 he became undersecretary in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry and in 1909, again as a State Secretary, back to the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Richter was a long-time advisor for potash matters to the ministries. In 1912 he received the Order of the Crown, 1st Class, for the implementation of the 1910 Reich Law on the Sale of Potash Salts . The so-called "Potash Law" intervened on the part of the state in favor of the Potash Indicate by forcing every new potash plant into the existing cartel.

In 1917 he resigned from the civil service at his own request and became chairman of the board of the Kalisyndikats .

honors and awards

literature

  • Helga Berndt: Ties of senior civil servants in the administrative area of ​​the Prussian Ministry of Commerce and Industry to the private capitalist economy 1871 to 1932. JbWG 1984, issue 4, p. 53 (PDF; 1.8 MB).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical lexicon of the German fraternity. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 .
  • Rudolf Emil Martin: Under the spotlight . Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1910, p. 122 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Großfeld : On the antitrust law discussion before the First World War. In: Helmut Coing , Walter Wilhelm : Science and Codification of Private Law in the 19th Century. Volume IV, Frankfurt am Main 1979, pp. 255, 291.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1921
Place of death Berlin