Albert Richter (forester)

Albert Richter (6 May 1909, Lossnitz, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany - 2 August 2007, Eberswalde, Brandenburg, Germany) was a German academic and expert in siviculture or forest management. He is notable for founding the Choriner Musiksommer music festival, developing a new planning-process for forest management for the German Democratic Republic in the 1950s and writing several works on the history of forest management, including a biography of Heinrich Cotta. He also served as a professor and director of the Forestry College in Eberswalde.