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On the 25th of November 1993, Professor Dr. Hans-Egon Richert died in Blaustein near Ulm, Germany, after a long and severe illness. Richert held a chair of Mathematics at the University of Ulm from 1972 until his retirement as an emeritus professor in 1991.
Richert was born 1924 in Hamburg and was raised there. He had to complete high school at a private institution after being expelled from the public school in the period of the Third Reich for "anglophile leanings".
In 1946, at last back in Hamburg after the war and military service, he could begin his studies of mathematics. He obtained his diploma after eight terms and his PhD only one year later. When his mentor, Professor Max Deuring, accepted a position in Göttingen, the young Richert joined him as an assistant and obtained the venia legendi there in 1954. Soon after he was put in charge of one of the best mathematical libraries in Germany.