Railway Directorate Magdeburg

The Magdeburg Railway Directorate was a railway directorate in Magdeburg , initially of the Royal Prussian State Railways .

history

The Royal Railway Directorate in Magdeburg was one of eleven railway directorates that were created in 1879 as part of the reorganization of the Prussian state railway .

When the Prussian State Railways merged with the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920, the management was initially called the Magdeburg Railway Directorate , and from 1922 the Magdeburg Railway Directorate . In 1931 the management was dissolved, its routes were mainly transferred to the Reichsbahndirektion Halle , some also to the Reichsbahndirektion Hannover and the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin as well as the Reichsbahndirektion Altona .

In August 1945, on the orders of SMAD , the Deutsche Reichsbahn founded a new Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the Soviet occupation zone . This was dissolved in 1990 and its area assigned to the Reich Railway Directorate Halle.

Lore

The records of the Magdeburg Railway Directorate are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

Web links

• bahnstatistik.de: Royal Railway Directorate in Magdeburg
• Tradition of the Magdeburg Railway Directorate in the holdings of the Magdeburg Railway Directorate in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau Department

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klee, p. 179.