Eugen Richter

Eugen Richter
Leader of the
Free-minded People's Party
In office
7 May 1893 – 10 March 1906
Preceded byParty established
Succeeded byHermann Müller-Sagan
Member of the Reichstag
(German Empire)
In office
21 March 1871 – 10 March 1906
ConstituencyArnsberg 4 (1887-1906)
Berlin 5 (1884-1887)
Arnsberg 4 (1878-1884)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1871-1878)
(North German Confederation)
In office
1867–1871
ConstituencyNordhausen
Personal details
Born(1838-07-30)30 July 1838
Düsseldorf
Died10 March 1906(1906-03-10) (aged 67)
Lichterfelde, Berlin
Political partyFree-minded People's Party (1893–1906)
Other political
affiliations
German Free-minded Party (1884–1893)
German Progress Party (1861–1884)
OccupationJournalist, Jurist

Eugen Richter (30 July 1838 – 10 March 1906) was a German politician and journalist in Imperial Germany. He was one of the leading Old Liberals in the Prussian Landtag and the German Reichstag.[1]

  1. ^ Cf. Abbé E. Wetterlé (Representative for Alsace-Lorraine): few men exercised over Parliament an action so powerful as his. When the President granted him leave to speak, all the members gathered around him, for he never left his seat to mount the tribune. ... Bismarck, who could not stand contradiction, used to leave the assembly as soon as Richter began to speak. ... Few debaters had the courage to try their strength with the terrible polemicist. Kardorff and Kanitz, like Bebel and Singer, only reluctantly accepted the struggle with the man who always succeeded in having the laugh on his side. In: Behind the Scenes in the Reichstag, New York, 1918, p.47-48. (online)

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