Railway accident at Berlin Schönhauser Allee

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In the railway accident in Berlin Schönhauser Allee numerous collapsed on June 27, 1922 outside on the running boards of a train with compartment coach of the Berlin ring road ride- travelers from the train down. At least 45 people were killed.

the accident

On the afternoon of June 27, 1922, the day Walther Rathenau was buried , the staff of all public transport companies in Berlin stopped working and there were no underground trains , trams or buses . Therefore the trains on the Ringbahn were completely overcrowded. Many travelers rode standing on the running boards of the compartment cars without side aisles.

A free rider was holding onto a door. A long pole protruded from his backpack. On the open stretch between the train stations Gesundbrunnen and Schönhauser Allee , the door to which the traveler held on sprang open. As a result, the rod got into the clearance profile of the opposite track and tore numerous free riders from the oncoming train. The bridge on Schönfließer Strasse is named as the scene of the accident ; contemporary sources, on the other hand, report the million-dollar bridge as the scene of the accident.

consequences

18 people died instantly, the death toll rose to 34 in the next few hours; about 50 people were seriously injured. In the days that followed, the death toll rose to at least 45.

The traveler who carried the pole in his backpack got away with the horror.

The accident is dealt with in Peter Brock's 2009 detective novel The Beautiful Miss Li: Kappe's Seventh Case .

literature

  • Bernhard Püschel: Historical railway disasters. A chronicle of accidents from 1840 to 1926 . Freiburg 1977. ISBN 3-88255-838-5 , p. 124 f.
  • Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ritzau: Railway disasters .
  2. ↑ a b Serious railway accident on the north ring . In: Vossische Zeitung , June 28, 1922, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Another five fatalities . In: Vossische Zeitung , June 30, 1922, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Elmar Schütze: Miss Li and the year 1922 . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 11, 2009.

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 58.9 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 33.4"  E