Emil Beck (engineer)

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Emil Beck (* 22. November 1887 in Saxony Weiler ; † 20th February 1982 ) was a German civil engineer and construction officer, Mr in the civil service at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , he was also president of the Reichsbahn Berlin in the era of National Socialism .

Life

After graduating from high school, Beck studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Danzig from 1907 to 1911 . After his legal clerkship , Beck worked as a government builder ( assessor ) for the Württemberg State Railways.

Beck took part in the First World War as an officer and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class.

After returning to civil rail service, Beck was transferred to Breslau in 1922. At the beginning of 1923 he switched to the Albanian civil service as chief engineer for railway and road construction . After a short time he was entrusted with the entire technical management of public buildings as general director of public works. At the end of 1928 Beck returned to Prussia and worked in the Reich Railway Directorate in Breslau .

The Nazi Party he joined in early February in 1931 ( membership number 460298). In the same year Beck was transferred to the head office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. In 1933 he was appointed advisor for special affairs as Reichsbahnoberrat. At the beginning of 1935, Beck moved to the Stettin Reich Railway Directorate , where he was responsible for the freight train timetable. At the end of 1936 he went on as a department head to the Reichsbahndirektion Augsburg and at the end of 1938 as vice president and senior operations manager to the senior operations management south in Munich . In September 1939 he took over the management of the Lodsch Railway Directorate and in November 1939 the management of the General Directorate of the Eastern Railway in the General Government in Krakow . In April 1940 he succeeded Clemens Marx , who had resigned from his post on February 29, 1940, as President of the Reich Railway Directorate in Berlin. Beck was succeeded by Adolf Gerteis as head of the general management of Ostbahn .

Varia

During his studies Beck became a member of the Germania Danzig fraternity ; In 1951 he joined the Alemannia Danzig-Aachen fraternity .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 66-67.
  • Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945. (= Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History , Volume 20.) Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X , p. 947.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reich Railway Directorate President Beck . In: Newspaper of the Association of Central European Railway Administrations, Volume 80, No. 14 (April 4, 1940), pp. 186–187.
  2. ↑ Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1948. Stuttgart 1975, pp. 945f.
  3. ^ Moeller: Reichsbahndirektionspräsident Dr Ing eh Marx. In: Newspaper of the Association of Central European Railway Administrations, Volume 80, No. 10 (March 7, 1940), pp. 117–118.
  4. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and high-ranking civil servant at the Deutsche Reichsbahn
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Sachsenweiler
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1982
Place of death Backnang