Katowice Railway Directorate

Seal of the President of the Royal Railway Directorate in Katowice

The Katowice Railway Directorate was a railway directorate of the Prussian State Railways in Katowice .

history

The Kattowitz Railway Directorate was one of 10 newly founded railway directorates that were reorganized in 1895 as part of a reorganization of the Prussian state railway . Founding president was Max Roepell . In 1898 he moved from there to the Poznan Railway Directorate .

After parts of Upper Silesia - which also included Katowice - had to be ceded by Germany to Poland in the wake of the First World War in 1922 , the German railway directorate in Katowice was dissolved. The Reichsbahndirektion Opole was re-established for the routes previously managed by her that had remained in Germany . To handle the remaining affairs of the dissolved German EBD Kattowitz, a "main processing center" was set up at the Reichsbahndirektion Opole, which maintained a branch in Katowice and organizationally worked like a department of the Opole Directorate.

The Polish State Railways founded its own railroad management in Katowice for the part of the lines that had now come to rest in Poland.

literature

• Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007466-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klee, p. 179.
2. ↑ Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of July 1, 1922, No. 42. Announcement No. 712, p. 446.
3. ↑ Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 12, 1922, No. 48. Announcement No. 886, p. 543.