Hellmut Kasel

Hellmut Kasel (born September 8, 1906 in Göhren (near Altenburg) , † March 12, 1986 in Augsburg ; full name Hellmut Edgar Kasel ) was a German architect and construction officer in the state railway construction administration.

Life

Hellmut Kasel was born as the son of the architect Oskar Kasel, who was in the service of the Royal Saxon State Railways . After graduating from the Wettiner-Gymnasium in Dresden in 1926 and then doing practical work as a bricklayer and volunteer at a construction company, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . He passed the main diploma examination on May 31, 1935.

In his legal clerkship he worked at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , where he was initially employed at the Zwickau Reichsbahnbauamt . After taking the Grand State Examination on October 15, 1938, a year later he was seconded as assessor to the Reichsbahnneubauamt Augsburg , in order to be transferred to the Reichsbahndirektion Danzig on January 1, 1940 . After military service and his discharge from the military, he worked for the Hanover Railway Directorate from August 1945 and from 1950 to 1956 as Head of Construction at the Regensburg Railway Directorate . In January 1956 he became the head of the building construction department 50 and from 1968 of the building construction department 49 at the Federal Railway Directorate in Stuttgart . In 1950 Hellmut Kasel was promoted to the Federal Railroad Council, in 1960 to the Federal Railroad Council and in 1970 to the Federal Railroad Director. In 1971 Hellmut Kasel retired.

Services

After the war, Hellmut Kasel initially helped to rebuild the railway infrastructure in the Hanover administrative district (including the rebuilding of Hanover's main train station, as e.g. the new construction and design of the Hanover main train station restaurants, which opened on September 6, 1950). Fields of activity in the German Federal Railways were then in particular the new building during the Second World War destroyed the reception building and the construction of modern signal box -building for which establishing itself in the postwar period switchboard signal boxes :

Göppingen train station

• 1951–1953: reception building of the Plattling train station
• 1956–1958: reception building at Heilbronn main station
• 1959–1960: Entrance building of the Schwenningen train station (Neckar)
• 1961–1964: Göppingen station station building
• 1970–1971: Entrance building at Bad Liebenzell station
• 1957: Signal box in Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld
• 1961: Signal box in Plochingen station
• 1962: Signal box in Göppingen station
• 1965: Signal box in Heilbronn main station

In 1953 and 1954 he contributed parts of the text to the textbook Hochbauten der Eisenbahn by Richard Spröggel, and in 1960 and 1961 to the manual of railway construction by Ewald Graßmann.

literature

• Roland Feitenhansl: Heilbronn train station. Its reception building from 1848, 1874 and 1958 . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-01-7 .
• Martin Schack: New train stations. The station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1948 to 1973 . B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-49-3 .

Web links

• "Silent contemporary witnesses" about Hellmut Kasel