Johannes Ziertmann

Johannes Ziertmann (born May 9, 1880 ; † probably after 1952 in Berlin ) was a German architect and construction clerk who worked for the Prussian State Railways , the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Deutsche Bundesbahn , most recently in the rank of ministerial councilor . One of his most important works is the reception building of Duisburg main station .

Life

Former information board in the station building in Duisburg

There are no records of Ziertmann's family or his education. He completed his studies with a state examination and was then employed by the oldest German railway directorate, the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate (KED), Bromberg . He was later transferred to the Elberfeld Railway Directorate and worked there between 1911 and 1913 in the construction of the new reception building in Barmen . From 1919 he was employed at the Halle Railway Directorate, which from 1920, like all other railway directorates, was subdivided into the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Ziertmann must have been promoted to government building officer by 1922 at the latest , as this title appears in the files for the first time with his transfer to the Essen Railway Directorate . On September 1, 1927, he was promoted to the Reichsbahn Oberbaurat (with the conversion of the Deutsche Reichsbahn into the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft , the railway officials were no longer state officials). Obviously Ziertmann worked for the RBD Essen for 17 years. During this time he was entrusted with building his “masterpiece”, the Duisburg main train station. It has not yet been researched which other structures he created. In 1939 he moved to the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin . It can at least be assumed that the then (since 1937) Reich Minister of Transport Julius Dorpmüller (1869–1945), who was President of the Reich Railway Directorate in Essen from 1924 to 1925, stood up for him. Ziertmann is likely to belong to a party: The internal railway announcement of the proposal for his promotion of February 28, 1939 to the Ministerialrat mentions him without the addition “no party membership”.

His last promotion to the Deutsche Reichsbahn took place on April 1, 1939, to the Ministerialrat . From 1940, the designation Referent in the construction department can be found next to his name . The time of his retirement is also unclear, but in 1953 his name was still listed in a list of names of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, without any conclusions being drawn about his retirement or his death.

Web links

• Ulrich Bücholdt: Johannes Ziertmann (1880–?). The seemingly anonymous authority architecture. online: http://www.kmkbuecholdt.de/historisches/haben/Ziertmann1.htm , last accessed on May 15, 2012

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1. ↑ Johannes Ziertmann. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved March 10, 2010.
2. ↑ Helmut Heiber: Regesten Volume 2, p. 472, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-50181-X . ( limited preview in Google Book search)