Adolf Hofrichter

Adolf Hofrichter (16 March 1857 – 14 October 1916) was a German plumber and locksmith who became a Social Democratic (SPD) editor, party official and politician. He stood for election to the Reichstag (parliament) in a succession of general elections between 1893 and 1912. Nationally, the Social Democratic Party received more votes than any other party in every general election between 1890 and 1912, but their votes were concentrated in urban electoral districts which had far larger electorates than the more conservative rural districts: 1912 was the first time that the party won the largest number of seats. It was also the first time that Adolf Hofrichter, elected to represent Cologne City Electoral District, won a seat in the Reichstag. He remained a member till his death four and a half years later.

Biography Adolf Gustav Adalbert Hofrichter was born in Danzig (as Gdańsk was known to the city's German speaking majority) and to Anglophones before 1945). His father was a tax official. Slightly unusually for those times, he appears to have grown up in a family without public church connections. may be oversimplifying and overstating the situation. He subsequently became chair of the "Press Commission". The outbreak of the First World War meant that there would not be anothern general election till 1919. Hofrichter was still a member of the Reichstag when he died in 1916. He served on various parliamentary committees including those concerned with Disciplinary Procedures [in the Reichstag], Business and Trade, Trade Monopolies, Budget Matters, Military Disloyalty and Housing.