Curt Emmelius

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Curt Emmelius (born August 26, 1882 in Gießen , † December 7, 1968 in Göttingen ) was a German railway official.

Life

Emmelius attended the humanistic grammar school in Giessen. During his studies in Darmstadt he became a member of the student association Gesellschaft Burg . He completed his mechanical engineering studies at the Technical University of Berlin in 1908 with distinction. In addition, he passed the Grand State Examination in June 1911.

Act

Emmelius entered the service of the Prussian State Railways as a government architect . In the following years he gradually rose in the mechanical engineering service. In 1917 he became a government building officer . Emmelius was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920. In 1924 he was promoted to the Oberreichsbahnrat and in 1927 to the Reichsbahn director. From 1932 he headed the Reichsbahn-Zentralamt (RZA) for mechanical engineering. After Ernst Spiro , the Jewish director of the Reichsbahn Central Office for Purchasing, was given leave of absence in February 1933 for racist reasons, Emmelius also took over the management of this central office on a temporary basis. The four central offices that had existed since 1930 were merged again in 1936 as before 1930, Emmelius became director of the new RZA Berlin and remained in this position until the end of the Second World War . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5,849,768). Together with RZA employees, shortly before the end of the war, he relocated essential RZA materials and files to an alternative location in Göttingen.

From mid-1945 Emmelius headed the newly founded as a successor to the RZA Berlin, Reichsbahn-General in the British zone associated RZA Göttingen . In 1947 he retired.

Honors

literature

  • President a. D. Curt Emmelius 80 years old. in: Glasers Annalen, Vol. 85-86, 1961
  • Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau , Volume 18, 1969
  • Alfred Gottwaldt : The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1 , short biography on p. 435

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Emmelius, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway official
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1968
Place of death Goettingen