Karl von Kirchbach

Hans Friedrich Karl von Kirchbach (born July 22, 1847 in Auerbach / Vogtland , † January 15, 1929 in Dresden ) was a Royal Saxon Privy Councilor and General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways from 1899 to 1910 as well as cathedral dean in Meissen.

Live and act

Karl von Kirchbach came from the Saxon noble family Kirchbach and was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, the Oberlandforstmeister Carl von Kirchbach (1799-1893), royal Saxon secret finance councilor and chamberlain , and his wife Josephine von Bodenhausen (1825-1898). Kirchbach, like his younger brother Hans von Kirchbach, attended the higher private school in Auerbach.

After he first embarked on a military career and made it to the position of captain of the reserve, he joined the royal Saxon administrative apparatus after leaving the army. In 1885 Karl von Kirchbach was finance advisor in the general management of the state railways. After his predecessor Ewald Alexander Hoffmann left , he was General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways from January 2, 1899. During his tenure he reformed the structure of the Royal Directorate General twice. While this was previously divided into departments , administrations and inspections , from 1899 the management was subdivided into departments, technical offices and administrative offices. In the second restructuring that took place in 1909, terms such as directorate and office became common. The highest position of the authority , its own function, was renamed President of the Royal Directorate General of the Saxon State Railways. In 1910 he was responsible for:

6 operations directorates ( Chemnitz , Dresden-Altstadt , Dresden-Neustadt , Leipzig I, Leipzig II and Zwickau ), responsible for stations and goods handling , building authorities , railway maintenance companies and wood drinking stations,
5 machine offices (Chemnitz, Dresden-Altstadt, Dresden-Neustadt, Leipzig-Ost and Zwickau) to monitor the boiler houses ,
4 workshop offices to monitor the main and secondary workshops,
3 electrotechnical offices, responsible for the establishment, supervision and maintenance of the telegraph , telephone, signaling and security systems as well as the electrical lighting and power systems,
22 new building offices, responsible for the direct management of new buildings.

As with its predecessors, the Saxon railway network expanded considerably under President Karl von Kirchbach by 1910. The operating length increased to 3,326 kilometers. The state railways had over 1,500 locomotives and in 1910 carried over 100 million people and over 35 million tons of goods. The conditions for building canteens in state railways, issued in 1901 by Karl von Kirchbach, are one of the provisions that have been passed down to posterity.

With effect from September 30, 1910, Karl von Kirchbach resigned from the general management of the Saxon State Railways and went into politics in the following years . His successor in the office of President of the General Management was from October 1, 1910, the previous professor at the Technical University of Dresden , Richard Ulbricht. From 1911 to 1918 Kirchbach was a member of the 1st Chamber of the Saxon Landtag as a representative of the Meissen Monastery from the 34th to the 37th Ordinary Landtag.

After the death of his half-brother Hugo von Kirchbach (1833-1914), Karl was also first chairman of the Kirchbach family association from 1915 . He resigned the board of directors in 1928, a few months before his death.

family

Karl von Kirchbach married on May 20, 1882 in Leipzig Agnes Henriette Tschirschky and Boegendorff (1856-1938), a daughter of Adolf Leopold Tschirschky and Boegendorff (1828-1893), the Royal Saxon Lieutenant General à la suite of Protect-Fusilier Regiment No. 108 and his first wife Helene Luise Wilhelmine von Heynitz (1832–1862). Agnes von Tschirschky and Boegendorff was also a niece of the first general director of the Royal Saxon State Railways, Otto von Tschirschky and Boegendorff (1818–1903). Karl's second son, Arndt von Kirchbach (1885–1963), was his second wife, Esther Countess zu Münster, née von Carlowitz (1894–1946).

literature

German Railway Directorate, Railway Directorate Dresden 1869-1993, Helga Kuhne, VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-05-8 .
Encyclopedia of the Entire Railway System, Volume 6, Röll, Wurmb, Lang, Kienesperger, Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1894.
Justus Perthes: Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1918. Twelfth year, digitized version of the University of Düsseldorf, p. 536ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, Deutscher Uradel, 1920, 21st year, Gotha, Justus Perthes.
^ German Railway Directorates, Railway Directorate Dresden 1869–1993, Helga Kuhne, VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, 2010, page 15, ISBN 978-3-941712-05-8 .
^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 . Dresden 2001, p. 44.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ewald Alexander Hoffmann	General director of the Royal Saxon State Railways 1899–1910	Richard Ulbricht

personal data
SURNAME	Kirchbach, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kirchbach, Hans Friedrich Carl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Auerbach / Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1929
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, Deutscher Uradel, 1920, 21st year, Gotha, Justus Perthes.

[2] German Railway Directorates, Railway Directorate Dresden 1869–1993, Helga Kuhne, VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, 2010, page 15, ISBN 978-3-941712-05-8 .

[3] Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 . Dresden 2001, p. 44.