David Lochte

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David Lochte

David Lochte (born December 26, 1871 in Magdeburg , † December 11, 1935 in Hamburg ) was President of the Reich Railway Directorate in Mainz from December 9, 1924 to September 30, 1932 , and then President of the Reich Railway Directorate in Altona until his death .

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Lochte studied at the Universities of Lausanne , Leipzig and Berlin law . He began his professional life in the judicial service, but switched to the Prussian State Railways on December 17, 1896 , where he initially worked in the Cologne Railway Directorate . Positions in the railroad divisions of Magdeburg and Hanover , Kassel and Frankfurt followed . First Assessor he became in 1906 the Council and undertook a study tour to the USA . In 1919 he went to the railway administration in Berlin, which was connected with promotion to the senior council . In 1924 he became a department director in the Reichsbahn Central Office and Reichsbahndirektor . On October 22nd of the same year he became President of the Mainz Railway Directorate. His tenure there was the French occupation of the Rhineland , the associated Regiebetrieb and the resulting chaos. But expansion measures in the area of ​​the directorate also took place under his leadership, such as the slitting of the Mainz railway tunnel . Lochte moved from Mainz in 1932 to the Reichsbahndirektion Altona in the same position.

literature

  • NN: Reichsbahnpräsident Lochte leaves Mainz . In: Mainzer Anzeiger from September 22, 1932.
  • NN: Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials 1925 . Publishing house of the Verkehrswwissenschaftlichen Lehrmittelgesellschaft mbH at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Berlin 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f NN: Reichsbahnpräsident Lochte leaves Mainz , p. 3.
  2. ↑ 731-8 newspaper clippings collection of the Hamburg State Archives .
  3. ↑ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of December 13, 1924, No. 53, p. 559.
  4. ↑ NN: The new Reich Railway Directorate President . In: Mainzer Anzeiger from August 11, 1933.
  5. ^ NN: Directory (1925) , p. 24.
  6. ^ NN: Directory (1925) , p. 24.
  7. ^ NN: Directory (1925) , p. 24.
  8. ^ NN: Directory (1925) , p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Lochte, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway official
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1935
Place of death Hamburg