German Transport Exhibition 1953

The German Transport Exhibition in 1953 was the first overall presentation of the German transport industry after the Second World War .

Stylized train

Stylized airmail

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Stylized waterway postage stamps from the Deutsche Bundespost for the 1953 exhibition

history

The 1953 German Transport Exhibition took up the tradition of the 1925 German Transport Exhibition , which had also taken place in Munich . At that time, three million visitors were counted. The German transport industry tried to present itself to the world market again with the exhibition after the collapse of German industry caused by the Second World War.

The organization was incumbent on a specially founded association , the Association of German Transport Exhibition Munich 1953 eV , which had high-ranking staff. The chairman was Otto Frommknecht , Bavarian State Minister for Transport until 1950. The board also included: Karl Erhart, Friedrich Flügel and Ludwig Schmid for the city of Munich, the banker Karl Butzengeiger from the Bayerische Vereinsbank as treasurer, State Secretary Willi Guthsmuths and Heinrich Brunner as representatives of the Bavarian Ministry of Transport. The patron of the exhibition was Federal President Theodor Heuss and there was an "Honorary Presidium", in which top politicians from the Federal Republic of Germany , Bavaria and Thomas Wimmer , Lord Mayor of Munich, were represented. These included: Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , the Presidents of the Bundestag , Hermann Ehlers , and Bundesrat , Prime Minister Reinhold Maier , Federal Transport Minister Hans Christoph Seebohm , Federal Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and Federal Post Minister Hans Schuberth , Bavarian Prime Minister Hans Ehard , the Presidents of the two Landtag chambers , Alois Hundhammer and Josef Singer , the Bavarian Minister for Finance, Friedrich Zietsch , and for Economy, Hanns Seidel , and the President of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , Edmund Frohne . In addition, there was an "honorary committee" made up of around 300 prominent figures from industry, trade and administration.

The exhibition

Exhibition area

The transport exhibition took place from June 20 to October 11, 1953 on the then (now: "old") exhibition grounds on the Theresienhöhe in Munich. For a few days the traffic exhibition and the Oktoberfest overlapped , the event grounds were also adjacent.

The exhibition area comprised 56 hectares , 14 exhibition halls and 2000 m of track systems to show rail vehicles. Parts of Munich-Riem Airport were included in the exhibition. At the exhibition, rail, road, water and air transport, post and telecommunications, "space travel" and tourism were presented.

Exhibitors

The traffic exhibition was not a sales fair in the traditional sense, but a German exhibition. In the automobile sector, there were thematic presentations, but no individual company booths. Rather, types were presented together, such as sports cars or trucks .

The German Federal Railroad exhibited more than 50 vehicles. The "Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf" (LUFTAG) gave an overview of Lufthansa's past and presented plans for the newly founded Lufthansa. The public transport company presented itself with the latest trams and buses from German production. During the exhibition, some of them were used in Munich's local public transport system.

exhibition

Exhibition halls

Hall	Carrier: Subjects	Most important objects / notes
A.	Main entrance
B, C, D and outdoor area (f)	Sample post office mailing, sorting office , stamp exhibition , systems of telephone traffic , in particular Selbstwähleinrichtungen , plants of the telegraphy , overseas radio , maritime radio , land mobile radio service , television broadcasting , radio tower (f), post express (f), buses (f)
E.	"Water traffic"	divided into maritime shipping and inland shipping
F, G	Road traffic ( individual traffic ), Federal Ministry of Transport
H	Trams , trolleybuses
J	Omnibuses
K	Aviation : Fully equipped body of a Douglas DC-6 , whose interior corresponded to the future German commercial aircraft, fully automatic model of Frankfurt Airport am Main with take-off and landing aircraft, foreign airlines , "corporation for air traffic demand" (LUFTAG), Tower of air traffic control , joint stand Working group of German airports . Space travel : Society for Space Research , German Rocket and Space Museum : a "15 m high research rocket ", probably a Viking rocket Tourism (on the upper floor)	Since Germany was unable to show much about aviation in 1953 due to its lack of air sovereignty, one focus of the presentation was on aviation history ( zeppelins , history of Lufthansa ). Foreign airlines represented: Air France , British European Airways (BEA), KLM , Sabena and Swissair .
L.	movie theater
M.	Aluminum in traffic
N	Deutsche Bundesbahn : main hall and model railway , building construction ; Restaurant with two dining cars in front of the hall	The presentation was structured and structured according to the key words “Safe”, “Fast”, “Comfortable” and “ Efficient ”: Fast : Express freight transport , including air rail traffic (Flei), long-distance express train network Comfortable : Adjustment of the space available through traffic observation ; Service at the station ; Freight: transport containers, refrigerated transport, large model of the freight office in Heilbronn Powerful : Remote conferencing system via the railway-owned telephone network ( BASA ), central control of the clocks of the DB, Hamburg suburban traffic, coal traffic from the Ruhr area , sample plans, including the conversion of Braunschweig Hauptbahnhof into a through station , a similar project for Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof , a new freight station for Bremen , an underground S-Bahn station under the Stachus in Munich, tunnel and bridge construction. Safe : model railway layout in gauge 0 ( gauge 32 mm) on 600 m², 1,300 m of track, 170 points and signals each , 700 catenary masts and 2,500 relays . The model railway system simulated real operation. The system was operated by three "real" pushbutton interlockings , contained a trajectory and a drainage mountain . There were 30 locomotives, 60 passenger cars and 170 freight cars in operation . Next to the model railroad layout was a grandstand for 1,400 people. Building construction : including designs for the facade design of Munich main station , model of the new building for a reception building in Bad Reichenhall
N, cultivation	Shipping of the DB: Model of the Germany , model of the Großenbrode Kai station
N 1	Non-federally owned railways and mountain railways : Association of non-federally owned railways eV Bayerische Zugspitzbahn Wendelsteinbahn Bergbahnen im Siebengebirge AG St. Andreasberger Kleinbahn
O	Deutsche Bundesbahn: Workshop services, section model of an express train car	Guarantee of operational safety, new procedures
Intermediate wing of Halls O and V	Guardrail according to the Kuch system
P	Deutsche Bundesbahn: Exhibition hall of the industry supplying DB, especially vehicle construction	Mockup of a motor vehicle and an intermediate vehicle of the light metal articulated multiple unit VT 10.5 engines, gearboxes, bogies
Q	Deutsche Bundesbahn: accessories, measuring and special devices	Ticket printer tape recorder / voice memory train control system Indusi
R.	Deutsche Bundesbahn: Superstructure concrete sleepers seamlessly welded track Mechanization in track construction Development project for rail grinding trains	The topic was supplemented by special vehicles that were exhibited in the outdoor area (S).
S.	Deutsche Bundesbahn: outdoor area (see below)
T	Center d'Information des Chemins de Fer Européens (CICE)	European railways, international freight transport, considerations about what started four years later as Trans-Europ-Express .
U	Aerial ropeways
V	Social affairs, especially trade unions
W.	Traffic science, traffic safety, traffic education: Federal traffic watch , weather service , public order office, traffic police
X	Berlin pavilion
Y	Hamburg pavilion
Z	Congress hall, cinema

Outdoor area

The outdoor area, which was mainly used by the DB, in the exhibition it was labeled "S", comprised an area of ​​4 ha and 2,500 m of track with 15 points . 60 vehicles were exhibited here:

• Railcar
  • VT 08
  • VT 10.501
  • VT 10,551 (temporarily)
  • Local transport diesel multiple unit VT 12
  • Rail bus plus single-axle trailer ( DB series VB 141 ) for luggage and ski transport
  • Rail-road omnibus
  • ET 56 electric multiple unit
  • Accumulator railcar ETA 176
• Steam locomotives
  • Series 18.6
  • Series 23
• Diesel locomotives
  • V 200 with a push-pull train made of lightweight wagons
  • V 80
• Electric locomotives
  • E 94
  • A prototype of the E 10 series
• Passenger cars
  • Sleeping car (also one that only had one-bed compartments)
  • Touropa car
• Freight wagons , including:
  • double-decker car transporter
  • Tank wagon for cement with compressed air discharge
  • Type SSt low-loader wagons for up to 150 tons of payload
  • Refrigerator truck
• Railway service vehicles
• Culemeyer - street scooter
• Mobile substation
• Track construction
• Switchboard
• Platform roofs
• Control center for the traction power supply

On a second outdoor area, marked “8” in the exhibition, the topics were: trucks , tractors , tractors and camping .

Also in the outdoor area was a pavilion in which the Alwegbahn , a monorail , was presented. However, only "a chassis of the original measuring train" was exhibited. The exhibition catalog sums up: "For serious interested parties who want detailed information, we recommend visiting the ALWEG research test field in Cologne."

particularities

• Visitors to the exhibition were given the opportunity to drive locomotives themselves over a 430 m long track. The class 18.6 steam locomotive and the V 200 diesel locomotive were used .
• The DB operated a 1,500 m long park railway ("Liliputbahn") with a circuit on the exhibition grounds. It had three stops: one at the main entrance, one at the exhibition halls of the railway and one on the open-air area "S". She continued through a tunnel under the "T" pavilion. Two automatic safety systems for unrestricted level crossings were also demonstrated in operation along the line . The route was driven by three steam locomotives, which were modeled on the class 10 express locomotive and pulled trains with 10 cars each.
• A cable car installed especially for the exhibition had a length of 900 m and eight supports with a height difference of only 11 m. The drive station, in which a motor of 40 HP (approx .: 30 kW) worked, was on the Theresienwiese . From here the rope led to a tensioning station on the exhibition grounds. In a middle station, also on the exhibition grounds, the direction of travel was diverted by around 150 °. Vehicles were 60 gondolas of different designs. The trip took about 6 minutes. The train could carry up to 600 people per direction and hour.
• Traffic kindergarten
• A milk bar - typical of the time - was also not missing.

literature

• Emil Maurer (Editor): German Transport Exhibition - Official Catalog . Carl Gabler, Munich 1953.
• HPL: Munich Transport Exhibition . In: Die Zeit vom May 21, 1953, accessed on August 13, 2017.

Remarks

1. ↑ According to the spelling at the time, still with two "f".
2. ↑ At the time the exhibition was running, the Federal Republic of Germany had not yet regained air sovereignty and was not yet allowed to operate its own airline .
3. ↑ The facility was later to be seen in the visitor center at Frankfurt Airport until the expansion began in the early 1970s.
4. ↑ What is meant is the Federal Republic of Germany with West Berlin. There were ten commercial airports here in 1953: Berlin , Bremen , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Hanover , Cologne , Riem , Nuremberg and Stuttgart .
5. ↑ The exhibition catalog (Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 121) depicts the launch of a Viking rocket. Their dimensions correspond to the information about the rocket on display in the catalog.
6. ↑ In connections to West Berlin it was possible to have the goods transported between Hamburg and Berlin by air freight (Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 131).
7. ↑ Including a rail bus to which the exhibition catalog explicitly refers (Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 133).
8. ↑ The two original trains were shown in the outdoor area (S), but this is not mentioned in the catalog. This exhibition arrangement suggests that the decision to exhibit the trains was made very late, after the catalog was printed.
9. ↑ The train left the transport exhibition prematurely for a test and advertising trip to Greece .
10. ^ Emil Maurer was the managing director of the German Transport Exhibition Munich 1953 eV (ibid., P. 28).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HPL: Transport Exhibition .
2. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 28.
3. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 3ff.
4. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 11.
5. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , pp. 12–27.
6. ↑ HPL: Transport Exhibition .
7. ↑ HPL: Transport Exhibition .
8. ↑ HPL: Transport Exhibition .
9. ↑ HPL: Transport Exhibition .
10. ↑ Information from Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , pp. 37–61.
11. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 119.
12. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 119.
13. ^ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 132.
14. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 132f.
15. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 133f.
16. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 136.
17. ^ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 135.
18. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition, p. 144f.
19. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 136.
20. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 167f.
21. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 138.
22. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 138.
23. ^ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 137.
24. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 138.
25. ^ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 137.
26. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 146f.
27. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , pp. 148–152.
28. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 153ff.
29. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition, p. 157f.
30. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 138ff.
31. ↑ Heinz Kurz: The VT 10.5 series . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005. ISBN = 978-3-8446-6025-8, pp. 107-109.
32. ↑ Heinz Kurz: The VT 10.5 series . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005. ISBN = 978-3-8446-6025-8, pp. 107-113.
33. ^ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 137.
34. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 62.
35. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition, p. 166f.
36. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 166.
37. ^ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 167.
38. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 141f.
39. ↑ Maurer: German Transport Exhibition , p. 57.
40. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 131.
41. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 143 and plan of the exhibition between p. 36 and 37.
42. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , p. 169f.
43. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , pp. 34, 171.
44. ↑ Maurer: Deutsche Verkehrsausstellung , pp. 34, 172.