Max Waechter

Sir Max Leonard Waechter (29 July 1837 – 3 October 1924

Career Waechter was born in Stettin, then in Germany and now Szczecin in Poland. His father was Julius Leonard Waechter, a Lutheran pastor. He went to England in 1859 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1865.

Waechter lived in Terrace House on Richmond Hill.

Waechter was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1902 Birthday Honours and knighted by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.

Family Waechter married twice. His first wife, whom he married at St John the Divine, Richmond in 1873,

Death and legacy

Waechter contributed, anonymously, to a fund established to erect a memorial in Richmond to Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck; a memorial fountain was erected outside the Richmond Gate to Richmond Park. Waechter owned Glover's Island which he donated to the Borough of Richmond in 1900. He helped preserve the view from Richmond across the river by preventing destructive development.

Waechter died in 1924 and is buried in Richmond Cemetery.

Publications Waechter, Max: European Federation: A Lecture Delivered at the London Institution on the 25th February 1909, Jordan & Sons, Limited, 1909, 15pp. Waechter, Max: The United States of Europe: How to Make War Impossible, Twentieth Century Press, 1922, 11pp. Waechter, Max: How to Abolish War: The United States of Europe, 1924, 12pp. Waechter, Max: The Principal Lesson of the Balkan Wars OCLC 82740175