Horst Kayser

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Horst Kayser (* before 1970) is a German engineer and volunteer railway activist. The DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt / Weinstrasse emerged on his initiative , and he was its director for decades. In addition, he was involved in the implementation of the preservation of the cuckoo trail as a museum railway. Since 2011 he has been the holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life

Kayser was active since about 1970 for the German Society for railway history , first in a working group in Ottenhöfen , the end point of in Achern beginning Achertalbahn . This was increasingly faced with the problem of accommodating the inventory of historic railway vehicles in suitable locations. He became aware of the southern locomotive shed of the Neustadt depot, which was abandoned around 1960 . He rented this from the Deutsche Bundesbahn after the latter had already had plans to tear it down. The DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt / Weinstraße developed from this , and the locomotive shed is now a listed building . In the meantime, Kayser became the head of the said working group. In addition, in the early 1980s he campaigned for the preservation of the Kuckucksbähnel as a museum railway. At the turn of the year 2010/2011 he gave up management of the museum.

Kayser is a full-time engineer, married and has two sons. He lives in Lindenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reiner Frank: Railway in the Elmsteiner Valley then and now . 2001, p. 75 .
  2. ↑ 5 years Kuckucksbähnel Neustadt / Wstr. - Lambrecht - Elmstein. Festschrift for the anniversary of the first Rhineland-Palatinate museum railway . 1989, p. 5 .
  3. ↑ Change of leadership in the Neustadt Railway Museum - Horst Kayser is retiring - Ralf Rudolph becomes the new museum director in Neustadt. In: eisenbahnmuseum-neustadt.de :. Retrieved January 4, 2015 .
  4. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free town of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. Mainz 2020, p. 19 (PDF; 4.8 MB).
  5. ↑ Reiner Frank: Railway in the Elmsteiner Valley then and now . 2001, p. 71 .
  6. ↑ Horst Kayser - Lindenberg. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2015 ; accessed on January 4, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kayser, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and honorary railway activist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1970