Nico Max Richter was the son of Izaak Richter and Sara Manheim. At his parents’ insistence, he studied medicine, but music was his passion. During his school years at a HBS [modern-style grammar school], he composed his first pieces. In time, he became a noted composer. His career came to a premature finish in 1942. He was deported to Dachau, where he remained until the end of the war. Nico returned to Amsterdam in a severely weakened state and died there a few months later.
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Nico Max Richter passed his medical qualifying examination in november 1941.
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See for additional information the biography (in Dutch) on the website of the Nederlands Muziek Instituut in P. Micheels e.a., Wat bleef was hun muziek (Den Haag 2007) 32-33 and in en in J. van Adrichem (et al.),Rebel, mijn hart : kunstenaars 1940-1945 (Zwolle 1995) 90