Karl von Thielen

Karl Hermann Peter von Thielen (born January 30, 1832 in Wesel , † January 10, 1906 in Berlin ) was a Prussian politician.

Origin and family

Von Thielen was the son of Field Provost Peter Thielen . He was born with Friederike van Spankeren married. Her daughter Emma (1862–1931) was married to Richard Haldy, district administrator of Gummersbach, and to Georg Porcher , district administrator of Wipperfürth, for the second time .

Life

After studying in Bonn, where he joined the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn in the summer semester of 1853 , Karl Thielen became a government assessor in Koblenz and Arnsberg in 1860 , administrator in the Wittgenstein district office in 1864 and then joined the Prussian railway administration at the Saarbrücken railway department. In 1865 he became a laborer in the Ministry of Commerce, in 1866 a member of the Wroclaw Railway Directorate, from which he left in 1867 to join the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft as a director . After acquiring it for the state, he became President of the Kgl. Railway directorate of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft Elberfeld and 1887 president of the railway directorate Hanover .

After the resignation of Albert von Maybach , Thielen became Minister of Public Works on June 20, 1891, from July 5, 1891 also head of the Reich Railway Office and remained in both offices until June 23, 1902. He was occasionally referred to as "Railway Minister ". Compared to his predecessors in this office, von Thielen had considerably reduced competencies, especially with regard to tariff structuring. On January 5, 1900, he issued new regulations on the hours of duty and rest times for railway officials. The duration of the daily shift of the train attendants and the locomotive drivers should no longer be allowed to exceed 16 hours, even if longer breaks are taken.

Great progress has been made in all branches of the Prussian state railways under his administration. The expansion of the railway network was significantly promoted through the enactment of the Kleinbahngesetz 1892. His merit was the reorganization of the state railway administration in 1895. In addition to the acquisition of some private railways, the state railway network was expanded by that of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn together with the Hessian government, whereupon the Prussian-Hessian railway community was formed in 1896 .

Karl von Thielen, bust by Martin Goetze

He introduced numerous improvements in passenger transport (including the express trains ) and in the passenger tariffs (the 45-day return tickets ). However, his plans to expand the waterway network ( Mittelland Canal ) failed.

In this capacity he was with others in Lübeck on May 31, 1895 to lay the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal . After the blows with the silver hammer by the Minister of State , Johannes von Miquel , the Minister of State followed by the commanding Admiral Eduard von Knorr struck the granite stone in the ceremony .

In 1900 Thielen was raised to the nobility. On February 15, 1902, he and several other Prussian ministers took part in the inaugural trip of the new Berliner Hochbahn - later the subway -, which is why this trip was also called the ministerial trip . (see also the history of the Berlin subway: first construction phase )

Between 1903 and 1906 von Thielen was a member of the supervisory board of Friedrich Krupp AG . That is why Thielenplatz in Essen - Holsterhausen is named after him.

Honors, miscellaneous

The Thielenbrücke between the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Neukölln was named after him.
The Karl von Thielen Bridge in Hamburg and a street - in Wilhelmsburg bear his name.
In Bremen - Findorff and in Cologne - Ehrenfeld streets are named after him.
He is buried in Cemetery II of the Trinity Church in Berlin. The grave site is in field G.

literature

Minister of State von Thielen . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 22, No. 51 (June 28, 1902), pp. 313–315.
Minister of State von Thielen † . In Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 26, No. 5 (January 13, 1906), pp. 31–32.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 26-27.

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^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 673 .
↑ Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry Volume 8 / II, March 1890 - October 1900
^ Coron publishing company (ed.): The Coron Chronicle - the 20th century: 1900-1903 . P. 28, ISBN 3-577-17101-4 .
↑ ^a ^b Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System. Berlin, Vienna 1912
^ The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.
^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 323 .

personal data
SURNAME	Thielen, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thielen, Karl Hermann Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wesel
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1906
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 673 .

[2] Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry Volume 8 / II, March 1890 - October 1900

[3] Coron publishing company (ed.): The Coron Chronicle - the 20th century: 1900-1903 . P. 28, ISBN 3-577-17101-4 .

[roell-4] Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System. Berlin, Vienna 1912

[5] The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.

[6] Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 323 .