Richard Pudor

Richard Pudor (born June 21, 1875 in Dresden , † April 14, 1950 in Leipzig ) was a German businessman and politician ( SPD , ASPD , DDP , LDPD ).

Life

Richard Pudor worked as a trade fair operator in Leipzig for several decades. He had three exhibition halls built in the city center: first the Reichshof in 1898 , the Hansa-Haus followed in 1906 and the Dresdner Hof in 1913 .

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Pudor was also politically active. From 1920 to 1923 he sat for the SPD in the Saxon state parliament . On October 21, 1923, he officially resigned his mandate because of “work overload”. The real reason for the resignation, however, lay in his rejection of cooperation with the KPD , after he had been critical of the union of the SPD with the USPD two years earlier. In June 1926 Pudor joined the during the axes conflict arising old Social Democratic Party at (ASPD). He later joined the left-wing liberal German Democratic Party and the German State Party.

During the time of National Socialism , Pudor took part in the liberal resistance group Robinsohn-Strassmann-Gruppe and spent some time in prison and in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

In July 1945, Pudor was one of the signatories of an appeal to found the Democratic Party of Germany (DPD), which was to be a joint party of Christian and liberal Democrats. After the Soviet military administration in Germany did not approve the formation of a unified bourgeois party, he joined the Liberal Democratic Party together with the majority of the Leipzig DPD founders and was one of its leading representatives in the city council until his death in 1950.

literature

Richard Pudor in memory . Alice Pudor, Leipzig 1950

Web links

Richard Pudor biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Pudor, Richard. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on February 10, 2020 .

Individual evidence

↑ State Archive in Leipzig: Inventory 20,986 Trade Fair Palace facility Dresdner Hof, Leipzig
^ Communication in the 62nd session on October 23, 1923, Negotiations of the Saxon State Parliament (2nd electoral period), pp. 1759–1760. Occasionally it is incorrectly stated in the literature that he was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1923 to 1933, as was the case in the funeral speech by Prof. Dr. Alex Richter. In: Richard Pudor in memory . Alice Pudor, Leipzig 1950 (unpaginated).
↑ Mike Schmeitzner : Alfred Fellisch 1884–1973. A political biography (= history and politics in Saxony. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-13599-2 , p. 252.
↑ Mike Schmeitzner : Alfred Fellisch 1884–1973. A political biography (= history and politics in Saxony. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-13599-2 , p. 214.
↑ Richard Pudor's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
↑ Horst Sassin : Liberals in the Resistance. The Robinsohn-Strassmann Group 1934–1942 . Hamburg 1993 (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history , vol. 30), ISBN 3-7672-1188-2 , p. 400 and funeral speech by Prof. Dr. Alex Richter. In: Richard Pudor in memory . Alice Pudor, Leipzig 1950 (unpaginated). With Martin Schumacher : MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic during the National Socialist era: political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, Pudor is not mentioned.
^ Ekkehart Krippendorff : The founding of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 1960, issue 3, pp. 290–309, access pp. 308–309.
^ Ekkehart Krippendorff: The founding of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 1960, issue 3, pp. 290–309, here p. 299.

personal data
SURNAME	Pudor, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politicians (SPD, ASPD, LDPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1950
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] State Archive in Leipzig: Inventory 20,986 Trade Fair Palace facility Dresdner Hof, Leipzig

[2] Communication in the 62nd session on October 23, 1923, Negotiations of the Saxon State Parliament (2nd electoral period), pp. 1759–1760. Occasionally it is incorrectly stated in the literature that he was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1923 to 1933, as was the case in the funeral speech by Prof. Dr. Alex Richter. In: Richard Pudor in memory . Alice Pudor, Leipzig 1950 (unpaginated).

[3] Mike Schmeitzner : Alfred Fellisch 1884–1973. A political biography (= history and politics in Saxony. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-13599-2 , p. 252.

[4] Mike Schmeitzner : Alfred Fellisch 1884–1973. A political biography (= history and politics in Saxony. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-13599-2 , p. 214.

[5] Richard Pudor's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

[6] Horst Sassin : Liberals in the Resistance. The Robinsohn-Strassmann Group 1934–1942 . Hamburg 1993 (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history , vol. 30), ISBN 3-7672-1188-2 , p. 400 and funeral speech by Prof. Dr. Alex Richter. In: Richard Pudor in memory . Alice Pudor, Leipzig 1950 (unpaginated). With Martin Schumacher : MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic during the National Socialist era: political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, Pudor is not mentioned.

[7] Ekkehart Krippendorff : The founding of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 1960, issue 3, pp. 290–309, access pp. 308–309.

[8] Ekkehart Krippendorff: The founding of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 1960, issue 3, pp. 290–309, here p. 299.