Werner Hubert

98 131, a former Oldenburg T 2 (1932)

Werner Hubert (* 1896 in Charlottenburg ; † June 17, 1947 in Dresden ) was a German railway photographer .

Life

60 001 (ex LBE No. 1) leaves Hamburg Central Station with a double set of ex-LBE double-decker cars (1936)

Type photo of the DR 87.008

Werner Hubert was born in 1896 as the son of a chief engineer in Charlottenburg, the then major city west of Berlin . Hubert was interested in the history of locomotives from an early age, so the eleven year old made his first notes in 1907 at the Zoologischer Garten station. His first photographs date from 1910 and show locomotives of the Prussian state railway and some private railways in the greater Berlin area. These recordings, which were then still 9 × 12 cm glass plates , were developed by himself.

Before 1914, Werner Hubert finally got his camera, which was valued as a “postcard camera”. Prints of his photos were soon sold as locomotive postcards by the Dresden publisher Johannes Leonhardt. The pictures with this camera were already in the postcard format of 10 × 15 cm. Even the First World War could not dissuade the passionate photographer from his passion when he served as a Landsturmmann in the 3rd Company of the Guard Landsturm Battalion Zehrendorf in Zossen .

After this war, Hubert earned his living in the A. Borsig locomotive factory , where the engineer from the design office was given the opportunity to reconstruct old factory photographs. Finally Hubert switched to Hanomag in Hanover . Many of the factory postcards from this period come from Hubert's archive. In 1931 Hanomag stopped building steam locomotives and Hubert changed his employer again. He was drawn to Henschel in Kassel via Hamburg until he joined the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1939 . The Reichsbahndirektion Dresden became his professional home and thus Saxony his photographic focus.

Werner Hubert was one of the founding members of the German Locomotive Image Archive (DLA) in Darmstadt, which was established in 1929 . All locomotive and railcar series should be portrayed here according to a uniform photography standard. In 1944 the archive was moved from Darmstadt to Berlin to the Reich Ministry of Transport , where it received new rooms and, above all, furniture that was specially made to store the glass plate negatives. In order to expand the holdings of this archive, Werner Hubert undertook photographic trips to northern and central Germany.

Werner Hubert died on June 17, 1947 as a result of blood poisoning .

Publications

The Berlin light rail locomotives in the picture, 1933
The locomotives of the vorm. Kgl. Prussian Military Railway, Die Lokomotive, Verlag A. Berg, Vienna p. 125
The locomotives of the Lübeck-Büchener Railway, LBE-Druck, Lübeck 1926
The locomotives of the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Verkehrstechnik, Deutscher Verlag, Berlin 1927, p. 714 and 726
The Berlin Stadtbahn-Lokomotiven, consortium of the publishers Verkehrszentralamt of the German Student Union, seat in Darmstadt, and VWL, Berlin 1933
Articles in the Hanomag news from 1922

Literature about Werner Hubert

Thomas Samek: '' Old Masters of Railway Photography: Werner Hubert. Vol. 1: Länderbahnlokomotiven ''. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-312-3
Thomas Samek: '' 'Old masters of railway photography: Werner Hubert. Bd. 2 standard locomotives, private railways ''. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-313-0

Web links

Literature by and about Werner Hubert in the catalog of the German National Library

Commons : Werner Hubert - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Th. Samek, Old Masters of Railway Photography: Werner Hubert. Vol. 1, pp. 3-16

personal data
SURNAME	Hubert, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German railway photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1947
Place of death	Dresden