Liselotte Richter

Luise Charlotte Richter was born in 1906 and grew up with her twin brother Fritz in a middle-class family, first in Berlin-Tegel and then in Charlottenburg.

While still in Marburg, she became involved in the KPD (Communist Party of Germany), which led to her arrest in 1933 shortly after the Nazis seized power.

After almost three years of unemployment, Richter was given an assistant position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and worked on its Leibniz edition (correspondence), which she continued to do during the Nazi regime.

[4] After the Second World War, Richter took over the build-up and management of the Charlottenburg Volkshochschule and was also appointed district councillor for adult education.

[5] Richter became a member of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany), which quickly tried to influence university politics.

In addition to Søren Kierkegaard, she also wrote publications on René Descartes, Jakob Böhme, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Moses Mendelssohn, Angelus Silesius, Rainer Maria Rilke, Karl Jaspers, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Mahatma Gandhi.

Richard Schröder, Catherina Wenzel, and Michael Weichenhan wrote the memorial volume "Nach jedem Sonnenuntergange bin ich verwundet und verwaist."

[6] From 2007 to 2013, the Leibniz-Edition Potsdam of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities awarded the Liselotte Richter Prize, which was endowed with 1,000 euros, to upper secondary school students in Berlin and Brandenburg.