Ernst Krittian

Ernst Krittian (born January 12, 1941 in Linz ; † January 13, 2018 ) was a German railway engineer and university lecturer. He held a number of management positions at the Deutsche Bundesbahn and later Deutsche Bahn , including the management of several major projects.

He taught the subject of rail transport at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Economics .

Career

Krittian grew up as one of six siblings. He studied civil engineering with a specialization in railway engineering at the University of Karlsruhe . He then passed the Great State Examination .

At the end of the 1970s he became project manager for the upgraded and new line from Karlsruhe to Basel . In this role, among other things, he brought the Katzenberg Tunnel into its current form. He still held this position around 1987.

Later he was the project manager of the new and upgraded Stuttgart – Augsburg line and the later new Wendlingen – Ulm line . He is considered the father of the so-called K-route between Stuttgart and Ulm. He initially campaigned for a new construction and expansion of the existing route through the Filstal and against the Heimerl route favored by the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1990 onwards . After an extensive discussion of variants with those affected, he suggested, in contrast to the solution previously favored by the railway, to run the new line between Stuttgart and Ulm along the federal motorway 8 , because this had emerged as the most expedient solution from the open discussion.

Under his leadership, the planning for the new Wendlingen – Ulm line was advanced and a section was approved. In September 1994 he initiated the regional planning procedure for the new Wendlingen – Ulm line.

Until 1995, Krittian was in charge of technical planning at Stuttgart 21 . He was also the project manager of Neu-Ulm 21 .

After twelve years of work for the new and expansion project Stuttgart-Ulm-Augsburg, Krittian went on sick leave in November 2000 at the age of 60, according to official information from Deutsche Bahn. Most recently, he led a ten-person planning group for the Wendlingen – Ulm project. According to his own statements, he had already retired from railroad service in early 2000.

According to his own statements, his primary goal has always been to develop environmentally friendly traffic planning together with the affected citizens. The bundling of federal highway 3 with the Rhine Valley Railway between Baden-Baden and Offenburg , the bundling of federal highway 36 with the new line between Karlsruhe and Rastatt and the Rastatt tunnel can be traced back to his work.

At the end of the 1960s, he took over the lecture on rail transport at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and was made an honorary professor for it. Around 2010 he held a teaching position for “Basics of Rail Transport” at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} "I notice painfully how times have changed." In: Badische Zeitung (regional edition Nördliches Breisgau) . January 5, 2013, p. 24 (similar version online ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Jörg Nauke: "Project decision in manor-like manner" . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 21, 2010, p. 24 ( online ( Memento from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).
3. ^ Ernst Krittian: The upgraded and new line Karlsruhe – Basel . In: The Federal Railroad . Vol. 63 (1987), No. 10, pp. 911-916.
4. ↑ Michael Ohnewald , Achim Wörner: Stuttgart 21: An unending debate . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 21, 2000, p. 21.
5. ↑ Portrait of the week: Gerhard Heimerl . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 23, 1994.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Ohnewald : Bahn is withdrawing in installments at Stuttgart 21 . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 21, 2000, p. 21.
7. ↑ Regional planning for the new Wendlingen - Ulm line at the regional council . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 16, 1994.