Fritz Busch (Manager)

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Fritz Franz Emanuel Busch (born April 2, 1884 in Arnsberg ; † December 22, 1958 there ) was a German railway manager. He was the last general director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the western zone and from 7 September to 31 October 1949 the first general director of the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

Life

Grave of the Busch couple

Busch was the son of high school professor Dr. H. c. Friedrich Busch . After primary school he attended the Laurentianum grammar school . He then studied law in Bonn , Munich , Leipzig and Münster . His doctorate as Dr. jur. he took off in Leipzig. After passing the assessor exam , Busch initially worked as a lawyer in Essen and Berlin. Later he was a judge.

In 1918 Busch switched to the Deutsche Reichsbahn. He was a department head at the Reich Railway Directorate in Cologne and Kassel . Later he went to the headquarters in Berlin. From 1932 Busch worked as a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Transport .

After the end of the Second World War , Busch became Deputy General Director of the Reichsbahn for the British Zone in August 1945 . On August 8, 1946, he succeeded the late Max Leibbrand as General Director of the British Zone, shortly afterwards from October 1, 1946, he became Reichsbahn General Director for the Bizone . In December 1948, he publicly appealed for a quick bridging loan, fearing that he would no longer be able to pay the employees' wages and salaries. Even after the renaming of the Reichsbahn in the Federal Republic of Germany to the “Deutsche Bundesbahn” on September 7, 1949, he remained General Director, but only for a few weeks. His retirement on October 31 was due to reasons of age; the federal government did not want to make an exception to the rule for top civil servants, for fundamental reasons.

After his retirement, Busch lived again in his native Arnsberg. He made several public contributions to the debate about a new Federal Railway Act. In 1952 the Federal President Theodor Heuss awarded him the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

  • Munzinger: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1959 from February 23, 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Gottwaldt: Dorpmüller's Reichsbahn - The era of the Reich Minister of Transport Julius Dorpmüller 1920-1945. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-726-8 , p. 230
  2. ↑ Minutes of the 16th cabinet meeting of the Federal Government on October 28, 1949. Retrieved on May 27, 2014 .
  3. ^ Fritz Busch: Bahn needs a strong board of directors . In: The time . No. 28 , 1950 ( zeit.de ).
  4. ^ Fritz Busch: Tug of war for the Federal Railroad . In: The time . No. 18 , 1951 ( zeit.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busch, Fritz Franz Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1958
Place of death Arnsberg