Richard Richter (politician)

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Richard Richter was a German politician ( DBD ). He was state chairman of the DBD in Saxony-Anhalt and state minister.

Life

Richter, son of a working-class family, was employed as a farm worker for large farmers, in industry and in the circus. He joined the SPD in 1945 and the SED in 1946 . He was also a member of the VdgB and active in youth work. In the course of the land reform in 1945 he was given a new farmer's position. In 1948 he was co-founder of the DBD in Saxony-Anhalt and from June 1948 to 1951 its first state chairman.

Even if he did not run in the state elections in the province of Saxony in 1946 , he became a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on October 28, 1949 . In the state elections in 1950 , which were carried out as sham elections , he received another mandate in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt until the dissolution of the states in the GDR in 1952.

From 1949 to July 1952 he was a member of the People's Council and the People's Chamber . From November 1950 to June 1951 he was minister without portfolio in the Bruschke government of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and was mainly involved in the control of the land reform construction program.

After leaving the government, he worked in various LPGs and was from March 10, 1952 an unofficial employee "Siegfried" of the MfS . In 1956 the MfS suspected him of dishonesty and he resigned as an IM.

literature

  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , pp. 156, 166, 593 and 1005.
  • Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from Above. The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany, 1948–1963. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56703-9 , pp. 117f. and passim

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Trittel: The parliamentary groups in Saxony-Anhalt from 1946 to 1950: Analysis of state political action and the scope for action of collective actors in the emerging GDR, 2006, ISBN 9783835096684 , p. 241
  2. ↑ Minutes of the 1st electoral term, reprint 1992, ISBN 3-8051-0096-5 , p. 481; 51st session of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, Friday, February 24, 1950
  3. ^ New Times of November 25, 1950
  4. ^ The holdings of the state archives of Saxony-Anhalt 1945–1952. Brief overview . State Archives Magdeburg 1995, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DBD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century