Clemens Marx

Clemens Marx (born November 6, 1871 in Stolberg (Rhineland) , † 1953 ) was a German civil engineer and Reichsbahn official.

Life

Clemens Marx, son of Gottfried Marx and Everhardine, nee Jansen, acquired in 1889 at the High School in Aachen the matriculation examination . After serving in the fusilier regiment "Prince Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern" (Hohenzollernsches) No. 40 for a year, he studied civil engineering at the Royal Technical University of Aachen from Easter 1890 to the end of 1894 and became a member of the Corps Delta there. After graduating, he entered the railway service. In 1896 he became government construction manager in the district of the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne . Appointed government builder in 1899, he moved to Aachen as an unskilled worker for the factory inspection. In the same year he was transferred to the Royal Railway Directorate in Katowice . In April 1905 he was appointed railway construction and operations inspector to the board of the Schneidemühl construction department , where he was responsible for the construction of a locomotive workshop . In 1907 he moved to Hagen , where he took over the management of Works Inspection I and was appointed Chief Inspectorate the following year. In 1911 he became a member of the Royal Railway Directorate in Erfurt as head of civil engineering . In the same year he became a member of the government and took over the management of the operations department. During the First World War he did field railway service . In 1915 he was a senior technical officer at the Military Railway Directorate 4 in Warsaw, later head of the operations department of the local railway directorate and, most recently, chief operations manager in Kovno .

After the end of the war he returned to his former civilian position and in 1919 was entrusted with the management of a consultant in the railway departments of the Ministry of Public Works and appointed as a ministerial advisor to the lecturing council and the secret building councilor. In 1924 he was appointed President of the Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld , in 1925 of the Reichsbahndirektion Essen and 1930 of the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin . He resigned from office on February 29, 1940.

Awards

Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the TH Dresden (1930)
Namesake for the President-Marx-Platz in Bissingheim
Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
Bremen Hanseatic Cross
Order of Merit of St. Michael 4th Class with the crown
Knight's Cross with war decoration of the Franz Joseph Order

literature

Marx, Clemens. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1200.
Marx, Clemens. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 1431.

Web links

Clemens Marx in the online version of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 14.
^ Moeller: Reich Railway Directorate President Dr.-Ing. E. h. Marx. In: Newspaper of the Association of Central European Railway Administrations, Volume 80, No. 10 (March 7, 1940), pp. 117–118.

personal data
SURNAME	Marx, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer and Reichsbahn official
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stolberg (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH	1953

[1] Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 14.

[2] Moeller: Reich Railway Directorate President Dr.-Ing. E. h. Marx. In: Newspaper of the Association of Central European Railway Administrations, Volume 80, No. 10 (March 7, 1940), pp. 117–118.