Royal Railway Directorate Berlin
The Royal Railway Directorate Berlin of the Prussian State Railways existed from April 1, 1880 to April 1, 1920.
The head office based in Berlin was the one with the smallest share of the Prussian route network with 587 kilometers, but had a considerable volume of traffic with the Berlin rail hub. It was in 1880 from the already 1852 bought up Märkischen Niederschlesisch Railway , which since then as Märkischen Niederschlesisch-Royal Direction of the railway was renamed, emerged. With the nationalization of the Berlin railways, such as the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway or the Berlin-Anhalt Railway in the years 1878 to 1887, it grew into a large authority with numerous officials. As early as 1885, it had to gradually hand over some of its routes to other directorates. In the course of the restructuring of the Prussian directorates in 1895, their route network was significantly reduced. Since then, she has been responsible for the Stadtbahn , the Ringbahn , all Berlin train stations and suburban traffic such as the Berlin-Dresden Railway to Zossen . Long-distance traffic to and from Berlin, however, was the responsibility of the respective neighboring directorates.
When the individual Länderbahn became the property of the German Reich, the Berlin Railway Directorate was transformed into the Berlin Railway Directorate .
Seat
From 1895, the railway management had its seat in the newly built service building on the Landwehr Canal , Schöneberger Ufer 1–3 in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district
President
- 1863-1875: Paul Jonas
- 1875–1880: von Mühlenfels
- 1880–1881: Engelbert Pape
- 1881-1893: Eduard Wex
- 1893–1904: Viktor Ferdinand von Kranold
- 1904–1910: Gustav Behrendt
- 1910–1917: Otto Rüdlin
- 1917–1920: Wulff