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THE RECTOR (RICHTER) FAMILY IN GERMANY
Richter is an old surname in Germany and has been
translated to England and the United States of America.
Inthe latter country, the word has been variously spelled
Richtor, Richter, Ricktar, Rektar and Rechter, but for
many years has been anglicized to Rector. In old German
the word Richter means literally, a judge and its anglicized form carries essentially the same connotation. The
word Rector per se is also used in modern German and
implies a headmaster, mayor or head of state!. Quoting
from the noted historian J. H. Shinn(7)
The Richters are an old family of the German
Empire, widely dispersed in locality, of eminent
respectability and far famed as thinkers and
musical composers. In German history they
have also been noted as great soldiers, great
merchants and skilled iron masters.
Most of our more immediate ancestry came from the
thrifty little German village of Truppbach, one and onehalf miles from Siegen, in the principality of NassauSiegen, the present Prussian province of Westphalia (in
the mountains sixty miles southwest of Cologne.)
Our earliest documentation goes back to 1550 with
the birth of Hans Richter in Freiburg, Saxony. He obtained citizenship at Siegen in 1585. Jacob Richter and
wife Anna Maria lived in Siegen. Jacob was born ca. 1575
and died before March 27, 1622. Johannes Richter was
born ca. 1600-1610, and Christopher Richter, whose
wife was Anna Catherina Becker, was born ca. 1645.
They lived at Truppbach. Christopher was a clockmaker,
and in 1675 he and Anna Catherina mortgaged their
fields and meadows to repair damage to their property
created by the troops of General Von Koenigsmarck as
they marched through Nassau-Siegen (6), Finally we.