German Transport Exhibition 1925
The German Transport Exhibition (DVA) 1925 was held from June 1 to October 12, 1925 in the exhibition halls of Munich's Theresienhöhe . It was the first German transport exhibition and at the same time the largest exhibition in the German Reich after the end of the First World War . With almost 3 million visitors, it exceeded the dimensions of other Munich trade fairs and exhibitions during this time. The successful exhibition of 1925 was followed up by another German Transport Exhibition in 1953 , which finally culminated in the Munich International Transport Exhibition (IVA) in 1965, which received international attention .
history
In 1924, a railway technical exhibition, mainly designed for a specialist audience, had already taken place in the Seddin marshalling yard . The Munich Transport Exhibition, which opened nine months later, was aimed primarily at the mass audience. The directorate of the exhibition consisted of State Secretary Alois Ritter von Frank (Director of the Bavarian Group Administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft ), State Secretary Georg Schätzel (Head of the Munich Department of the Reich Postal Ministry ), Hofrat Hans Küfner (Second Mayor of the City of Munich) and Friedrich Wussow (President of the Association of German Roads and Small Railroad Administrations and member of the Reich Economic Council ). The Honorary Presidium of the exhibition included Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , Reich Chancellor Hans Luther , Reich Transport Minister Rudolf Krohne , Reich Post Minister Karl Stingl and the First Mayor of Munich, Karl Scharnagl . The exhibition was intended to provide information in a “complete show about the current state of traffic technology, German inventiveness and German quality work”.
Exhibition halls
The exhibition took place on the exhibition grounds of the Theresienhöhe in Munich. There were already usable halls there, which had been built in 1908 and offered around 20,000 square meters of exhibition space. Additional halls (wooden structures) with an additional exhibition area of 17,000 square meters were built within four months at a cost of around 860,000 Reichsmarks . Some of the older exhibition halls, which were built using reinforced concrete technology , which was modern at the time , still exist today; they are listed and are used by the traffic center of the Deutsches Museum (halls I, II and III).
The exhibition
In the halls, workshop machines (700 m²), ship machines (1,100 m²), aviation (3,700 m²), aeronautical science (950 m²), country roads and road construction, road and motor traffic (4,000 m²) and railway wagons (6,700 m² ) were discussed in the halls ) displayed. In addition to a large outdoor exhibition area (e.g. for the locomotives) there was a representative pavilion, a pavilion in the truck stop, an electrical station in the exhibition station, a post bus hall and a hall for the superstructure. In order to appeal to families as well, an amusement park was created next to the traffic exhibition. Here there were numerous rides and stalls, an art pavilion, a puppet theater as well as a restaurant, a theater café and a beer hall. There was also a 41 meter high lighthouse (blown up in 1970) and two 100 meter high radio towers (to demonstrate the then new medium of broadcasting ), which were dismantled a short time later.
765 exhibitors from Austria and Germany showed their products. During the five-month period, 2,832,000 people visited the exhibition. August 8, 1925 was the most successful day during the exhibition with 65,149 visitors. Overall, the event generated sales of 4,133,700 Reichsmarks; the surplus was 370,500 Reichsmarks.
Mini railroad
A Liliput train also operated on the exhibition grounds and in the amusement park . The track length was around 1300 meters, the tracks had a track width of 381 mm (15 inches). There were two trains with open passenger cars. The three Liliput locomotives used were obtained from the Munich company Krauss & Co. delivered. They each had a weight of around 8 tons and were optically modeled on the new standard express train locomotives of the DR class 01 on a scale of 1: 3.33 . These locomotives, later also referred to as Martens' standard liliput locomotive, were designed according to the technical standards of the time; among other things, they were already equipped with automatic Scharfenberg couplings.
The miniature locomotives were also used by GeSoLei in Düsseldorf in 1926 and subsequently sold to an entrepreneur from Leipzig. All three copies still exist today; they are used on the park railways in Dresden and Leipzig .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss: The German automobile industry. A documentation from 1886 to 1979. DVA, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 246.
- ^ Holger Möller: The German trade fair and exhibition system. Location structure and spatial development since the 19th century. (Dissertation, 1986) (= Research on German Regional Studies , Volume 231.) Central Committee for German Regional Studies, Trier 1989, ISBN 3-881-43042-3 , p. 143.
- ↑ ETR Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau , 11th year 1962, p. 58.
literature
- Gerdi Maierbacher-Legl: Three halls - and a lot of traffic. Transport exhibitions in Munich. In: Kultur & Technik , magazine of the Deutsches Museum Munich, issue 3/1996, p. 18 ff. ( Online as PDF)
Web links
- Thomas Noßke : The German Transport Exhibition 1925, Munich . 2009.
- Historic photo of a railroad show at the Munich exhibition
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 36.1 ″ E