Ewald Alexander Hoffmann
Ewald Alexander Hoffmann (born January 8, 1838 in Freiberg , † April 30, 1899 in Dresden ) was a Royal Saxon Privy Councilor and General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways from 1887 to 1898.
Live and act
From 1851 Hoffmann attended the Princely School in Grimma . After the retirement of his predecessor Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1818-1903) on March 31, 1887 with effect from April 1, 1887, he was appointed the new General Director.
During his term of office , especially in the nineties of the 19th century , the Saxon railway system flourished for a second time. Dresden in particular experienced an enormous growth spurt from 1870 to 1900. From 1880 onwards, the number of inhabitants in Dresden rose by over 50% to around 335,000 in just 15 years. A main focus of his work was therefore the radical redesign of the entire Dresden railway system. Hoffmann commissioned the Privy Council, engineer and building inspector Claus Koepcke (1831-1911) as well as the building officer Otto Klette (1850-1897) to develop a plan for the reconstruction of the Dresden railway junction . This concept was presented in 1892 and included the following key areas:
- Conversion of the Dresdner Hauptbahnen as an elevated railway in order to be able to cross the road and the rails at no level ,
- Expansion and reconstruction of the Bohemian train station to the main train station (completion in April 1898)
- Merging of the Silesian and Leipzig train stations into the new Neustädter passenger train station
- Construction of the Wettin passenger station (later Dresden Mitte station ) between the main and Neustädter station
The reconstruction of the Dresden railway systems began in 1892 and lasted ten years. At the same time, from 1893, a new building for the General Directorate of the Royal Saxon State Railways was built on Wiener Straße in the immediate vicinity of the new main train station. A second office building for the management, the so-called head office, was built at the head end of Strehlener Strasse . In the same year, the “Departmental Engineer Bureau” was renamed “Royal Railway Construction Inspectorate” within the General Management. In 1894 Hoffmann inaugurated the new marshalling yard in Dresden-Friedrichstadt .
Ewald Alexander Hoffmann was also committed to the next generation in the railway, which, due to the growing transport network, had an increasing need for skilled workers. In 1891 Hoffmann visited the "Preparatory Institute for Post Helpers" founded in 1889 in Altenberg / Saxony . The general director suggested that young people at the institute should also be prepared for rail service. On September 29 of the same year, the first two-year course began to prepare for medium-level railway service. The school was then renamed the "Post and Railway School".
Ewald Alexander Hoffmann resigned as General Director of the Saxon Railways at the end of the year on December 31, 1898. His successor in office from 1899 was Karl von Kirchbach . Hoffmann died in Dresden in 1899 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof .
literature
- German Railway Directorate, Railway Directorate Dresden 1869-1993 , Helga Kuhne, VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-05-8 .
- Encyclopedia of the Entire Railway System, Volume 6, Röll, Wurmb, Lang, Kienesperger, Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1894.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3, 1899, p. 200.
- ↑ Materials from 410 years of personnel history of the former Saxon state (princely) school Grimma , in sapere aude , issue 47, June 2000, p. 1026 ff., Here 1028. ( online ( Memento des original from March 8, 2016 on the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ↑ German Railway Directorates, Railway Directorate Dresden 1869-1993, Helga Kuhne, VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, 2010, p. 137
- ^ Otto Reinhold Klette in the Dresden City Wiki
- ^ "Glückauf" -Gymnasium Dippoldiswalde / Altenberg : From private school to public school
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff |
General director of the Royal Saxon State Railways 1887–1898 |
Karl von Kirchbach |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Ewald Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1899 |
| Place of death | Dresden |