Friedrich-Wilhelm Richter was born on the 9 May 1911, in Picher near Hannover.
Strong has worked with northern Ottawa County officials on a massive buyout assistance program to relocate families and businesses from the nation’s most hazardous Superfund Site—the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Picher, Oklahoma.
Raised in Picher, Oklahoma, his first known band, Uncle Thumbtack, was formed in the early 1990s in Miami, Oklahoma with Boone Pickens and Fred Samuels, two lifelong friends.
Picher, Germany, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany