Herrmann Bachstein
Louis Herrmann Bachstein (born April 15, 1834 in Apolda ; † February 4, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German builder and railway entrepreneur . He was the initiator and operator or partner in over 60 tram and railway companies in Germany and abroad, especially small and branch lines .
Life
Bachstein was born as the son of a master coppersmith in Apolda, and from 1850 he learned the craft of carpenter . After stops in Chemnitz and Holzminden , he studied at the Berlin Bauakademie from 1856 . Working as a builder since 1859, Hermann Bachstein worked from 1864 for the railway company Bethel Henry Strousberg .
At the end of the 1860s, Bachstein had some railways built, but it was only after Strousberg's bankruptcy in 1874 that he himself entered the railroad construction business on a large scale. Bachstein founded the central administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein (CV) in Berlin in 1879 , which was entered in the commercial register in 1883 in the form of an open trading company (OHG) . This was converted into a GmbH in 1933 . In 1895/1897 he founded the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SEG), based in Darmstadt , as a subsidiary , to which some of the CV's railways were transferred and of which he became chairman of the board .
In addition to railway construction, Bachstein also took on other projects all over the world, the last project was the construction of the Karawanken tunnel in Austria. After Herrmann Bachstein's death in 1908, his son Herrmann Bachstein junior (1876–1944) took over the business. In 1923 the CV railways in Thuringia were merged to form the Thuringian Railway Company (Theag) . Today's Verkehrsbetriebe Bachstein GmbH emerged from the CV .
His daughter Elsa (1878–1968) married Walther Huth in 1905 , who from 1909 was a pioneer in the German aviation industry.
Herrmann Bachstein died in Berlin in 1908 at the age of 73 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of Hallesches Tor . His representative tomb with an antique grave wall made of red-brown granite has been preserved.
literature
- Dirk Endisch: The Bachstein transport company . Self-published , Leonberg 2004, ISBN 3-936893-10-1 .
- Winfried Dörner: The Südharz Railway - a region and its railway line . Dörner-Medien-Verlag, Bad Salzdetfurth / Braunlage 2018, ISBN 978-3-944110-02-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 211.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bachstein, Herrmann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bachstein, Louis Herrmann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder and railway entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Apolda , Thuringia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th February 1908 |
| Place of death | Berlin |