Kreiensen railway accident

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The Kreiensen railway accident on July 31, 1923 was the rear-end collision of an express train on its preference at Kreiensen station . 48 people were killed.

Starting position

The D 88 Hamburg – Munich ran on the night of July 30th to 31st 1923 with a priority, the DVz 88. This priority was left at Kreiensen station at around 4:00 o'clock in the morning due to a machine failure.

the accident

The locomotive driver of the main train overlooked the fact that the entry signal into the station commanded "stop", drove into the station at line speed and on the priority there. Numerous cars on both trains were badly damaged. A preferred car buckled two girders of the platform roof so that it threatened to collapse.

consequences

48 people were killed in the accident and 39 others were injured.

The main train driver was sentenced to 18 or 20 months in prison. The criminal process is said to have taken place - at least in part - in the Kreiensen train station restaurant.

Gerhard Domagk , pathologist , bacteriologist and later winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine , traveled in the last carriage of the privilege, which was smashed by the locomotive of the main train. He only survived because he got out to get something to drink. Even Otto Modersohn escaped the disaster only just as his train arrived a few hours later there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the Hamburg Transport Archives. In: Ekkehard Grundmann: Gerhard Domagk : the first winner over the infectious diseases . Münster 2001, p. 21, fig. 11.
  2. ↑ List of the Hamburg Transport Archives. In: Ekkehard Grundmann: Gerhard Domagk: the first winner over the infectious diseases . Münster 2001, p. 21, fig. 11.
  3. ↑ Ekkehard Grundmann: Gerhard Domagk: the first winner over the infectious diseases . Münster 2001, p. 20. The information on the scene of the accident is incorrectly given here.
  4. ↑ Otto Modersohn, Louise Modersohn-Breling, Otto-Modersohn-Museum: Otto Modersohn and Louise Modersohn-Breling , 2001, p. 65

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 55.7 ″  E