Max Kumbier

Max Eduard Ernst Kumbier (born October 28, 1867 in Bischofswerda , † January 22, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German ministerial official.

biography

Kumbier joined the Prussian State Railways in 1892 as a doctor of engineering . Most recently he was a member of the Erfurt Railway Directorate . In 1913 he moved to the Ministry of Public Works of Prussia as a secret building officer and lecturer , where he was appointed a secret senior building officer in 1917 and later a state secretary.

Shortly after the establishment of the Weimar Republic , he was appointed Ministerialrat and head of the operations department in the Reich Ministry of Transport in 1920, and a year later at the end of March 1921 he was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Transport. At the request of Reich Transport Minister Wilhelm Groener , he was also appointed to Karl von Stieler , but was also still head of the operations department. As technical state secretary, he was particularly responsible for the ministry's railway departments. In this function he became an associate member in 1922 and later a full member of the Academy for Construction.

In 1924 he resigned as State Secretary after he had become Director of the Operations and Construction Department of the Deutsche Reichsbahngesellschaft and second deputy to the General Director of the Reichsbahn.

He was also the author and editor of specialist books.

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

Hoff, Wilhelm / Kumbier, Max / Anger, Richard: "The German Railway System of the Present in Contributions by Outstanding Employees", 3.A., Berlin 1927 (PDF file; 939 kB)

literature

Georg Wenzel: German business leaders. Life courses of German business personalities, Hamburg 1929.

Web links

Max Kumbier in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Published by the Ministry of Public Works. No. 3, Berlin, January II, 1913.
↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Published by the Ministry of Public Works. Berlin, January 20, 1917.
^ Alfred C. Mierzejewski: The most valuable asset of the Reich. 1. 1920-1932 (= The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway . Volume 1 ). UNC Press Books, 1999, ISBN 0-8078-2496-8 , pp. 24 (English, 482 pp., Limited preview in Google Book Search).
^ The Deutsche Reichsbahn after the Hague Agreement in May 1930
^ NN: Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials 1925 . Verlag der Verkehrswwissenschaftliche Lehrmittelgesellschaft mbH at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Berlin 1925, p. 2.

personal data
SURNAME	Kumbier, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kumbier, Max Eduard Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ministerial official and state secretary
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bischofswerda
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1937
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Published by the Ministry of Public Works. No. 3, Berlin, January II, 1913.

[2] Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Published by the Ministry of Public Works. Berlin, January 20, 1917.

[3] Alfred C. Mierzejewski: The most valuable asset of the Reich. 1. 1920-1932 (= The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway . Volume 1 ). UNC Press Books, 1999, ISBN 0-8078-2496-8 , pp. 24 (English, 482 pp., Limited preview in Google Book Search).

[4] The Deutsche Reichsbahn after the Hague Agreement in May 1930

[5] NN: Directory of the upper Reichsbahn officials 1925 . Verlag der Verkehrswwissenschaftliche Lehrmittelgesellschaft mbH at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Berlin 1925, p. 2.