Bruno of Enderes

Bruno Ritter von Enderes (born February 19, 1871 in Vienna ; † October 17, 1934 there ) was an Austrian railway specialist and civil servant.

Youth and education

After attending grammar school in Vienna, Bruno von Enderes served as a one-year volunteer in 1891/92 with the infantry regiment "Freiherr von Hess" No. 49 and achieved the rank of "Lieutenant in the reserve". He then studied at the Technical University of Vienna and completed his studies in June 1896 with an engineering degree .

He became a member of the Teutonia Vienna fraternity .

Career

From March 1895 to February 1897, von Enderes was assistant to Professor Franz von Rziha in the chair for railway and tunnel construction . In April 1897, von Enderes joined the construction management of the Vienna Stadtbahn as an engineering assistant . In 1902 he was transferred to the railway construction department as construction commissioner and Karl Wurmb was assigned as secretary. In 1903 he was appointed chief engineer to the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry. From 1906 to 1908 he was the construction manager of the Trient – ​​Malè electric railway .

In October 1908 he resigned from the civil service and became the deputy general director of the Aussig-Teplitz railway , from 1909 he was general director himself.

On February 12, 1917, he returned to the civil service as section head and was taken over by the young republic to the Ministry of Transport. On November 7, 1918, von Enderes was appointed Undersecretary of State for Transport to the first Renner state government and held the office until the end of the state government on March 15, 1919.

In 1919 he became the authorized representative for the exploitation of the state's art holdings and the state representative of the republic in the wagon circulation committee in Central Europe established by the Paris Conference .

From 1919 to 1926 Bruno Enderes was president of the international commission for the division of the Austro-Hungarian railway park - the title of nobility was no longer applicable due to the nobility repeal act . He was also a representative of the Reparations Commission in the commission for the division of the state railway rolling stock of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Until 1925 and again in 1930 Enderes was a member of the administrative commission of the Austrian Federal Railways . He was also a member of the Danube Committee for the assessment of projects of the Danube Regulation Commission.

In 1931, Enderes became chairman of the founding committee of the National Economic Association, led by Dr. Schober .

Bruno Enderes was the author of numerous specialist publications. He died of a stroke in his Vienna apartment at the age of 63 .

Publications (selection)

• The reorganization of the German-Austrian state railway administration. Lecture, Vienna 1919
• The “wood and railroad” Budweis – Linz. 1926
• Scheduled transport investments. 1928
• The economic significance of the follow-up question. Leipzig / Vienna 1929
• The Semmering Railway - on the 75th birthday of its opening. 1929
• Ghega and His Work - Truth and Poetry. 1929
• The Austrian railways. 1931
• The crisis of the federal railways. 1932
• The Austrian transport system. 1932

literature

• Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Michaela Follner: Servants of many masters. Biographical manual of the section heads of the First Republic and 1945. Ed. By the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance and the Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901142-32-0 , pp. 89–91.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Unofficial part. Inland .. In:  Wiener Zeitung , November 8, 1918, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
2. ^ Almanac of the Austrian Railways 1931 . Vienna January 1931, page 253.
3. ^ The Schoberblock electoral association in Vienna. In:  Tages-Post , January 13, 1931, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). .
4. ^ Undersecretary of State Bruno Enderes has died. In:  Wiener Zeitung , October 18, 1934, p. 7 (online at ANNO ). .