Fritz Schelp

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Fritz Schelp (* 8. March 1898 in Buenos Aires ; † 12. September 1989 in Homburg ) was Nazism Secretary in the Ministry of Transportation and Management Board of Deutsche Reichsbahn (also responsible for tariffs of "special transports" in the extermination camps ). From 1950 he was President of the Hamburg Railway Directorate and in 1952 moved to the board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

Life

His father, a German abroad , worked as a foreign trade merchant in Argentina, but Fritz Schelp attended a school in Bremen. He studied law, worked briefly in the Foreign Office and began his career with the Reichsbahn in 1927. On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP. From 1935 to 1939 he was head of the Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg (Transport Department II) and as such was responsible for the special train tariffs. On June 1, 1942, he was appointed as the successor to Paul Treibe as ministerial director and head of the "EI Railway Tariff and Transport Department" in the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin and thus also a member of the board of the Reichsbahn. On February 20, 1945, he was one of the few Reichsbahn employees to be awarded the Knight's Cross for War Merit Cross without Swords.

In 1950 Schelp became President of the Hamburg Railway Directorate with almost 50,000 railway workers at the time. During his tenure there, the train ferry Großenbrode-Gedser , the reconstruction of the Hamburg main station and the Elbe bridge Lauenburg fell . In the spring of 1952 he also suggested plans for a bridge or tunnel as a connection between the mainland and Fehmarn, the Fehmarnsund Bridge, completed in 1963 . In May 1952 he moved to Offenbach, where he was one of the four board members of the Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1963, most recently as President under the then First President (chairman of the board) Heinz Oeftering . In 1962 he received the Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon. After retiring, he was still honorary president of the German National Tourist Board .

In the Nazi proceedings against the technocratic National Socialist Albert Ganzenmüller , Schelp only appeared as a witness, but was not prosecuted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deportation site Fruchtschuppen C. The deportation of the Sinti and Roma in May 1940 and the Hamburg port logistics , study by Marut G. Perle, page 27 , accessed on August 16, 2015
  2. ^ Archives Hamburger Abendblatt, tunnel under the Fehmarn Sound. Reinforcement of the ferry service for the Olympics , Hamburger Abendblatt from January 17, 1952
  3. ^ Archives Hamburger Abendblatt, category humanly seen , Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 7, 1952, page 1
  4. ↑ Schelp leaves Hamburg , Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 6, 1952 , accessed on August 16, 2015
  5. ^ Bundesbahn with a new management team , Die Zeit of May 16, 1957 , accessed on August 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schelp, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Ministerialdirektor in the Reich Ministry of Transport and after 1945 member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1989
Place of death Homburg