Kurt Dietmar Richter (24 September 1931 − 15 January 2019) was a German composer and conductor.
At the urging of his mother he attended a music school, where he was appointed assistant concertmaster at the age of twelve.
He studied with Dieter Zechlin and Franz Jung at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt.
[1] Later he was a master student with Johann Cilenšek [de] at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
He then worked as conductor at the municipal Döbeln and Theater Erfurt, at the Greifswald Theatre and at the Schweriner Philharmonie [de].