Gottlieb Charles Wachter (1865–1928), commonly known by his middle name, was a German-born businessman and city commissioner in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA.
[1] Gottlieb Charles Wachter, commonly known by his first initials or middle name, was born in the town of Bernstein, near Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg in 1865.
Wachter's one-man dray operation burgeoned into a substantial corporate enterprise with more than 50 teams of horses and the farmland needed to support them, cutting and delivering ice from the Missouri River,[4] hauling and selling coal and wood for heating, and providing excavation work and warehouse space.
[4] This meant looking ahead to development on the south side of the city, an area plagued at times by flooding from the Missouri River.
[9][10] In 1936 the Wachter-O'Neil construction company was involved in building a dam at the Fresno site in Montana, part of a series of projects along the Milk River.
Some of their most notable donations include space for parking lots south of the Bismarck Civic Center, land for the Wachter Aquatic Center[19] and Schaumberg Ice Arena, and part of the land for Wachter Junior High School and Dorothy Moses School.
[3] Some of their developments include areas south of Lincoln,[20] Cottonwood Lake Estates,[21] and River Place First Addition in Mandan.