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clinic district was also part of Ritter’s general development plan of 1924, so that he had to get in touch with the heads of these clinics at the time and from 1927 he also took part in the congresses of the
International Hospital Society. So in 1931 he got into hospital construction as a freelance
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and NSDAP demanded that the position of the city planning officer be advertised, and a hate campaign against him unexpectedly broke out. The NSDAP agitated against him using a poster, the SPD opposed Ritter's re-election in newspaper articles. In the city council meeting in
December 1930, in which
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After staying briefly in SĂĽdstraĂźe (today Karl-Liebknecht-StraĂźe), they moved into the ground floor of a house newly built by the architect Riedel at RĂĽckertstraĂźe 18. In
Leipzig, Ritter initiated the “Siedlungswoche” (Settlement week) that took place in March 1927. There, representatives from the
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department had already given their approval when the then mayor
Adenauer, at the instigation of the head of the city expansion office, prohibited this project. As a result, Ritter applied for the vacancies of the city planning officer in Nuremberg and in
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theater in Munich. After the approval of the
Supreme Building Authority, he was allowed to open a private office alongside his official work. There he carried out his first major commission in Munich at the end of 1910, a development plan
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and cities of the USA discussed modern housing and settlement construction. At this time, Ritter became a member of the
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was elected city planning officer for the next six years.
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Moderne in Leipzig. Architektur und Städtebau 1918-1933
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