Friedrich von Förderreuther

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Friedrich "Fritz" Förderreuther , since 1918 Knight von Förderreuther , (born March 15, 1852 in Munich , † October 20, 1929 in Pasing ) was a German railway engineer.

Life

Förderreuther studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . In 1872 he became a member of the Corps Vitruvia Munich. In 1874 he entered the service of the General Management of the Bavarian State Railways . He was the engineering consultant to the construction management of the Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg railway with Miltenberg-Amorbach , the Fichtelgebirgsbahn , the expansion of the Nuremberg state train station and the relocation of the Hof train station. In 1895 he moved from the general management in Munich to Donauwörth as a district engineer . In 1898 he was transferred back to the General Management. In 1900 he was appointed chief engineer. In 1901 he was appointed government councilor. In 1907 he moved to the Bavarian State Ministry for Transport Affairs as a senior councilor. There he was promoted to Ministerial Council in 1908 .

By King Ludwig III. Förderreuther was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in January 1918 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself "Knight von Förderreuther" after being entered in the nobility register .

In 1920 he retired.

Förderreuther's work for more than four decades was decisive for the expansion of the Bavarian State Railways, for which he received the Order of Merit of St. Michael (1913) and the King Ludwig Cross (1916) as well as the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class (1908) received. His daughter Tilde Förderreuther was married to the locomotive designer Georg Lotter .

Fonts

  • Device for preventing the premature switching of centralized points. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations. 1891, p. 581.
  • About the value of the route levers in turnouts and signal boxes. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 13, No. 11 (March 18, 1893), pp. 116–117. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philistine Association Vitruvia e. V. Munich, list of members as of January 1937, No. 71.
  2. ↑ Kasmas Lutz: The construction of the Bavarian railways to the right of the Rhine. 1883, pp. 147, 153, 168, 172. ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Official communications in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 15, No. 15 (April 13, 1895), p. 153.
  4. ↑ Official communications in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 18, No. 26 (June 25, 1898), p. 301.
  5. ↑ Official communications in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 20, No. 75 (September 22, 1900), p. 453.
  6. ↑ Official communications in: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 21, No. 83 (October 19, 1901), p. 505.
  7. ^ Official notices In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 27, No. 27 (March 30, 1907), p. 185.
  8. ^ Official notices In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 28, No. 97 (December 5, 1908), p. 641.
  9. ↑ Official notices. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 38, No. 11-12 (February 2, 1918), p. 49.
  10. ^ Official notices In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 33rd Volume, No. 69 (August 30, 1913), p. 453.
  11. ^ Official notices In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 36, No. 5 (January 15, 1916), p. 29.
  12. ^ Official notices In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 28, No. 57 (July 18, 1908), p. 385.
  13. ↑ Ernst Schörner:  Lotter, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 244 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Förderreuther, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Förderreuther, Friedrich Ritter von; Förderreuther, Fritz Ritter von; Förderreuther, Friedrich; Förderreuther, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1929
Place of death Pasing