Friedrich Martini (railway worker)

Friedrich Martini

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Friedrich "Fritz" Martini (born May 24, 1856 in Munster ; † February 28, 1933 ) was a German railroad worker and president of various Prussian railway directors.

Origin and education

Friedrich Martini was the son of the accountant Ludwig Martini. One of his grandmother's brothers was Heinrich Eduard von Pape , President of the Reich Higher Commercial Court in Leipzig and President of the commission that drafted the Civil Code .

Friedrich Martini attended high school in Münster in Westphalia from 1865 to 1874. He then studied law at the universities of Leipzig , Strasbourg , Marburg and Berlin . He completed his legal clerkship at courts in Münster in Westphalia and at the Hamm Higher Regional Court .

Career

On November 13, 1882 he became a court assessor . In 1893 he switched to the Prussian State Railways . Here he first worked in the Elberfeld ( Wuppertal ) railway directorate, then in the Kassel and Hagen works offices . From 1886 to 1888 he worked at the Berlin Railway Directorate and then until 1891 in the Prussian Ministry for Public Works (the Prussian Railway Ministry). From 1891 to 1895 he was a member of the Altona Railway Directorate , 1895 and 1896 of the Kassel Railway Directorate , and from 1896 to 1898 of the Frankfurt am Main Railway Directorate . He was then transferred again to the Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, this time with the rank of “lecturing council”. In 1908 he became President of the Kassel Railway Directorate, on January 17, 1910, President of the Cologne Railway Directorate , and on March 1, 1917, he took over the Mainz Railway Directorate in the same function. He still held this position when the Deutsche Reichsbahn was created from the state railways in 1920 . He thus became the first president of the Mainz Railway Directorate . In 1923 he retired from here.

Friedrich Martini died in 1933 at the age of 76. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin. (Section 28 HW 92) The grave has been preserved. The gray granite tombstone shows a bronze portrait relief on the front.

Honors

Red Cross Medal 3rd Class, Prussia

Order of the Zähringer Löwen , Baden , Knight's Cross 1st class with oak leaves

King Ludwig Cross , Bavaria

Order of Heinrich the Lion , Commander's Cross 2nd Class, Braunschweig

Order of Philip the Magnanimous , Commander's Cross 1st Class

General badge of honor of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for war merit

Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with star and oak leaves, Prussia

Royal Crown Order 2nd Class with Star, Prussia

Iron cross , 2nd class with white and black ribbon

Since April 16, 1913, Friedrich Martini held the title of Real Secret Upper Government Councilor with the rank of First Class Councilor .

literature

Julius von Busch: Friedrich Martini. President of the K. Prussian and Grossh. Hessian Railway Directorate. In: Baracs-Del Tour (ed.): Our contemporaries 23 = The Southern German Federal States 1914–1918 , Vol. 5 = The Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. Commemorative sheets of great times. Munich [1918?], Without page count.
NN: The new railway director of Mainz. In: Mainzer Anzeiger from February 19, 1917, No. 42.
NN: Change in the Mainz Railway Directorate. In: Mainzer Journal of February 19, 1917, No. 42.

Remarks

^ Same text as the article in the Neue Mainzer Zeitung on the same day.

Individual evidence

↑ NN: The new railway directorate. from Busch.
↑ From Busch.
↑ From Busch.
^ NN: The new President of the Railway Directorate ; from Busch.
↑ From Busch.
↑ NN: The new railway directorate .
↑ From Busch.
^ NN: The new President of the Railway Directorate ; Railway Directorate Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 3, 1917, No. 14. Message on the front page, p. 67.
^ Karl Kreck: 40 years Reichsbahndirektion Mainz , p. 45, = special print from: Die Reichsbahn 12/13 (1937) from 24./31. March 1937 . Digitized by the University of Darmstadt .
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 676.
↑ Unless otherwise stated: von Busch.
↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 12, 1918, No. 50. Rewards and awards, p. 330.
^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 24, 1917, No. 18. Rewards and Awards, p. 102.

personal data
SURNAME	Martini, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Martini, Fritz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	President of various Prussian railway directors
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1933

[14] Same text as the article in the Neue Mainzer Zeitung on the same day.

[1] NN: The new railway directorate. from Busch.

[2] From Busch.

[3] From Busch.

[4] NN: The new President of the Railway Directorate ; from Busch.

[5] From Busch.

[6] NN: The new railway directorate .

[7] From Busch.

[8] NN: The new President of the Railway Directorate ; Railway Directorate Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 3, 1917, No. 14. Message on the front page, p. 67.

[9] Karl Kreck: 40 years Reichsbahndirektion Mainz , p. 45, = special print from: Die Reichsbahn 12/13 (1937) from 24./31. March 1937 . Digitized by the University of Darmstadt .

[10] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 676.

[11] Unless otherwise stated: von Busch.

[12] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 12, 1918, No. 50. Rewards and awards, p. 330.

[13] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 24, 1917, No. 18. Rewards and Awards, p. 102.