Otto Richter (member of the cooperative)

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Richter (born November 30, 1872 in Querfurt , † April 8, 1927 in Magdeburg ) was a German SPD politician, co-founder of the Magdeburg building cooperative movement and chairman of the board of the Neustädter Konsumverein.

Life

Richter trained as a bricklayer at the Magdeburg construction company Härtel from 1887 to 1890 . At the same time he attended the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts .

In 1900 he was one of the co-founders of the Magdeburg tenants, building and savings association, a housing cooperative , of which he became chairman and remained until 1922.

Otto-Richter-Straße in Magdeburg with the color design based on plans by Carl Krayl

In 1904, on his initiative, the construction of the first Magdeburg cooperative settlement began in Westerhüser Strasse . This street, which was renamed Otto-Richter-Straße in his honor in 1927, is considered the forerunner of reform housing construction. In 1920/1921 the street was designed by Carl Krayl in an unusually colorful way as a rebellion against the previous housing construction. At that time, Magdeburg was considered the city ​​of the new will to build under city planning officer Bruno Taut . During the renovation in 1998/1999, this original color scheme was resumed in a section.

Another three settlement projects of the cooperative were realized under the direction of Richter.

In 1914 Richter took over the chairmanship of the Neustädter Konsumverein from 1864.

Since 1919 Richter belonged to the city council of Magdeburg for the SPD, since 1923 as an unpaid member of the magistrate . Here he was mainly concerned with construction matters. He supported the building policy of the mayor Hermann Beims , which was oriented towards social building .

From 1922 on he was managing director of the Bauhüttenbetriebsverband Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH. From 1924 he took over the management of Bauhütte Magdeburg GmbH.

literature

• Heike Kriewald: Richter, Otto. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .