Edmund Frohne

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Friedrich Edmund Frohne (born June 22, 1891 in Leipzig ; † August 8, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German transport scientist and politician .

job

After receiving his doctorate in 1926, Edmund Frohne worked at the Technical University of Dresden . From 1933 to 1936 he was an advisor to the Greek government on transport issues , including the planning of the new main train station in Thessaloniki . He then advised the Latvian State Railways until 1938 . In 1938 he moved to the Reichsbahndirektion Hannover . In 1941 Frohne was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

During the Second World War, under Frohne's direction, work was carried out on an alternative route for the congested Leinetal route . The newly emerging Salzgitter / Wolfsburg industrial complex was to have a better connection to the rail network . The basic tunneling under the Harz was intended for this purpose. The tunnel route was to have secondary chambers for the production of goods essential to the war effort and a tunnel station with an elevator for Braunlage .

After the Second World War, Frohne was head of the department for mining, metallurgy and saltworks in the state of Braunschweig . From 1949 Frohne was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society . After the founding of the State of Lower Saxony , he was taken over into its service and there from 1947 to 1950 State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport , then from July 1950 to April 1952 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport . From 1952 to 1957 he was President of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In 1957 he became a member of the Aviation Advisory Board of the Ministry of Transport, where he headed the committee for steep and vertical take- offs. He then advised the Turkish government on transport issues.

family

Edmund Frohne was married and had two children.

Honors

In 1953 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Braunschweig .

literature

From Frohne

  • The rope pay-off system at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt marshalling yard. In: Traffic Week. Shunting technology. 2. Special issue of the study society for shunting technology. Issue 10. 1st edition. Berlin 1929. page 128
  • The Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf drainage system. In: Traffic Week. Shunting technology. 4. Special issue of the study society for shunting technology. Special print. 1st edition. Berlin 1931. page 37
  • (Editor): United Europe by Rail. Elsner, Darmstadt 1957, DNB 451182154 . (Texts in German, English and French).

About Frohne

  • Matthias Lienert, Heinz Frohne: Friedrich Edmund Frohne (1896–1974) . In: Saxon Life Pictures . Volume 5. Leipzig 2003. ISBN 978-3-515-08417-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kurz: The VT 10.5 series . Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8446-6025-8 , p. 121.
  2. ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Schmalspurbahnen in Sachsen , transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-71205-9 , p. 25
  3. ↑ Hans-Christoph Seebohm : [answer to] Small Question 12 of the SPD parliamentary group - printed matter 2/141 = Bundestag printed matter 2/167 of December 30, 1953, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Happy, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frohne, Friedrich Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1971
Place of death Frankfurt am Main