Reich Railway Directorate Augsburg
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The Reichsbahndirektion Augsburg was an administrative authority of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . From 1920 to 1933 she was subordinate to the Bavarian group administration. Until 1920, the Reichsbahndirektion was called the Augsburg Railway Directorate .
When the Deutsche Bundesbahn was founded in 1949, it was renamed the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate .
The headquarters of the Reichsbahn or Bundesbahn directorate was located in an administrative building built between 1938 and 1939 on Prinzregentenplatz not far from Augsburg's main train station.
On May 1, 1971, the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate was finally dissolved and the area was largely assigned to the Munich Federal Railway Directorate . In 1978 the Augsburg district bought the former management building on Prinzregentenplatz and set up the district office there.
Jurisdiction
The Reichs- or Bundesbahndirektion Augsburg was responsible for the construction and operation of all state main and branch lines in the administrative region of Swabia as well as some railway lines east of Augsburg in the administrative region of Upper Bavaria . The operations , machine and traffic offices located in the area of management were subordinate to it . In addition, the management also managed part of Lake Constance shipping until 1962.
On January 1, 1963, the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate was subordinate to a total of six works offices, two machinery offices and two traffic offices. In addition, 358 train stations, stops and stops fell under the authority of the authority. The length of the main and branch lines was 1,410 kilometers. In addition, there were 990 bridge structures, 4,660 points and 320 signal boxes within the directorate boundaries.
Main lines
Several important main lines with a length of around 860 kilometers ran in the management area in 1963. The Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn (Treuchtlingen - Donauwörth - Augsburg - Buchloe - Kempten - Lindau) and the Maximiliansbahn (Ulm - Augsburg - Munich). The management also managed the Paartalbahn from Augsburg to Ingolstadt, the Illertalbahn from Neu-Ulm via Memmingen to Kempten, the Danube Valley Railway from Neuoffingen via Donauwörth to Ingolstadt as well as the Central Swabian axis from Munich via Buchloe to Memmingen.
Branch lines
There were also a large number of branch lines within the boundaries of the directorate. In 1963 the branch line network was around 550 kilometers long. Were typical in particular of primary paths branching off branch lines having a length of 5 to 10 kilometers. These included, for example, the railway lines Senden - Weißenhorn , Kellmünz - Babenhausen or Fünfstetten - Monheim . In addition, there were some mainline supplementary lines such as the Günzburg - Mindelheim , Gessertshausen - Türkheim and Biessenhofen - Füssen lines . The first electrified railway line in Bavaria from Türkheim to Bad Wörishofen was a special feature.
Railway depot
During the Reichsbahn and Bundesbahn times, the management in Augsburg was subordinate to a total of eight depots :
Lake Constance shipping
The Reichsbahndirektion Augsburg was also responsible for the ships of the Deutsche Reichsbahn stationed in Lindau . After the annexation of Austria , the Austrian fleet stationed in Bregenz was subordinated to the Lindau shipping authority. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Otter, head of department and acting department head at RBD Augsburg, conducted secret negotiations with Swiss authorities in November 1944 and April 1945 to rescue the Lindau fleet.
President
In the period between the transition from the Bavarian State Railways to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920 and the transition to the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1949, the following presidents of the Reich Railway Directorate in Augsburg were in office:
- January 1, 1908 to March 1924: Vitus Ritter von Hertel
- October 1, 1924 to January 31, 1933: Karl Wilhelm List (in charge of management from April 1, 1924)
- February 1, 1933 to May 1, 1946: Otto Hellmann
- May 1, 1946 to September 6, 1949: Karl Betzel (President of the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate until May 31, 1967)
Staff
On January 1, 1963, the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate employed a total of 12,700 people. The civil servants and employees made up the largest share with around 7,000 employees. In addition, there were around 3,000 auxiliary and typists as well as factory workers. 1,700 construction workers took care of the new construction and the underside of railway lines, stations and structures. Around 800 men were on duty in the workshops and at the high-voltage systems. The smallest group with around 200 employees was made up of young workers, apprentices and interns.
Vehicle inventory
At the time of the Reichsbahn, mainly steam locomotives ran in the management area. The former S 3/6 (series 18 4 ), P 8 (series 38 10–40 ) and P 10 (series 39) were often found on the main lines. Later came einheitsdampflokomotive , such as the 50 series or class 64 , added. Small steam locomotives (for example the GtL 4/4 or PtL 2/2 series ) were used on the branch lines. Standard steam locomotives such as the class 86 were later also used on Swabian branch lines .
After the Second World War, the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn increasingly procured electric and diesel locomotives. In the district of the Augsburg Federal Railway Directorate, the turn away from the steam locomotive took place. On January 1, 1963, there were a total of 191 steam locomotives, 64 electric locomotives and 22 diesel locomotives as well as 22 diesel and battery multiple units in the inventory of the Augsburg management. In addition, 583 passenger cars and around 296,000 freight cars were assigned to the department.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Zeitler, Helge Hufschläger: The railway in Swabia . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980, ISBN 3-87943-761-0 , page 203.
- ↑ Freed from the darkness. The large meeting room in the district office has been modernized. In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of August 9, 2011
- ↑ a b c Markus Hehl: The steam locomotive era in Swabia. Klartext Verlag, Essen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0613-6 , page 9.
- ↑ The fleet of the Lindau mechanical engineering office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1920: six steamers. Fleet in 1939: five steamers (two of them Austrian), five motor ships (two) and four motor boats (one). According to Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4 .
- ↑ Joachim Lilla : Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945. V. Financial, postal and railway administration authorities ( bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 21.7 ″ E