Konstantin Fritsch

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Konstantin Fritsch (born December 25, 1857 in Sprottau , Sprottau District , Province of Silesia , † January 22, 1934 in Magdeburg , Province of Saxony ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and President of the Reich Railway Authority .

Life

Konstantin Fritsch entered the Prussian railroad service in 1883 and from 1889 worked in the Prussian Ministry for Public Works in Berlin. In 1892 he joined the management of the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine to Strasbourg, where he was in 1893 member of the Imperial General Directorate of Railways in Alsace-Lorraine. In 1900, the dislocation followed as a lecturer advice to the National Board for the management of Imperial Railways to Berlin, where he as from January 1911 Secretary worked.

In May 1912, Fritsch took over the office of President of the Imperial General Directorate of the Railways in Alsace-Lorraine from Rudolf Schmidt, who was appointed Ministerial Director in the Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, taking over the management of the transport department at the railway administration. In contrast to his predecessor, whose field of work was more traffic and operational issues, Fritsch concentrated on general administration. During the entire duration of the First World War he worked closely with the army administration in order to manage the imperial railways in the war zone as an instrument of national defense.

On July 1, 1918, the appointment was made president of the Reich Railway Authority in Berlin at the presentation of the character as a Privy Councilor with the title of excellence as the successor to Michael Wackerzapp , which came from active service. With the transfer of the Reich Railway Office to the Reich Ministry of Transport in autumn 1919, Fritsch retired.

On his 75th birthday he received an honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Frankfurt . Fritsch was married on September 24, 1889 to Anna Martha von Hänisch (1867–1944), a daughter of the Prussian general Carl von Hänisch .

Works (selection)

  • The railways (=  Robert Hue de Grais [Hrsg.]: Handbook of Legislation in Prussia and the German Empire . Volume XIX ). Springer, Berlin 1906.
  • German railway law . Outline of the Reich and Prussian law. Publishing house of the traffic science teaching aid company at the Deutsche Reichsbahnen, Berlin 1927 (second, supplemented edition 1928).

literature

  • Constitution and administration of Alsace-Lorraine 1871–1918 . In: The Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine 1871–1918 . Published on behalf of the scientific institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich at the University of Frankfurt by Georg Wolfram . Volume II, Part 2. Self-published by the Elsass-Lothringen Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1937, p. 437-438 .
  • Ernst Rudolf Huber : German constitutional history since 1789 . Bismarck and the Reich. III. Tape. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963, p. 840 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ News about changes in the number of senior officials of the association administrations . In: Organ for the progress of the railway industry in technical terms . Journal of the Association of German Railway Administrations. New episode. XLIX. Volume, 11th issue, 1912, pp. 214 .
  2. ↑ News about changes in the inventory of the senior officials of the club administrations . In: Organ for the progress of the railway industry in technical terms . Journal of the Association of German Railway Administrations. New episode. LV. Volume, 11th issue, 1918, p. 179 .
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Konstantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritsch, Constantin; Fritsch, Konstantin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprottau , Sprottau District , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1934
Place of death Magdeburg , Province of Saxony