Supreme construction management of the Reichsautobahn

The Supreme Construction Management of the Reichsautobahn (OBR) were the middle administrative levels of the Reichsautobahn construction in the Third Reich . As regional sub-units of the "Reichsautobahnen" company founded in June 1933, they were responsible for planning and building the Reichsautobahn in their area of ​​activity. The construction work was the responsibility of the subordinate construction departments .

From June 1933 a total of 15 supreme construction management was established in the Reich. Until 1935 they were called “Supreme Construction Management of the Motorways” (OBK) and, like the entire “Reichsautobahnen” company, were initially affiliated with the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft . The Reichsautobahn were separated from this in 1938 and 1942 and the management of the Reichsautobahn-Gesellschaft was subordinated directly to the General Inspector for German Roads .

After Austria was annexed in March 1938, the Linz OBR was set up on May 20th .

The Supreme Construction Management also set up and managed camps for the use of forced laborers to build the motorway, especially for German and non-German Jews.

Supreme construction management in 1935

As of March 1935, the following Supreme Construction Management existed:

Seat	address	founding	Construction departments
Altona	Museumsstrasse 15	November 10, 1933	Bad Oldesloe Bremen Wandsbek Harburg-Wilhelmsburg
Berlin	Potsdamer Strasse 20	July 20, 1934	Frankfurt (Oder) Potsdam Wilhelmshagen
Wroclaw	Berliner Platz 20e	December 20, 1933	Wroclaw Bunzlau Gliwice Haynau Liegnitz
Dresden	Bismarckplatz 5	December 18, 1933	Chemnitz Dresden Glauchau Nossen Plauen
eat	Kruppstrasse 16	November 1, 1933	Beckum Duisburg Came Recklinghausen
Frankfurt (Main)	Hohenzollernplatz 35	June 24, 1933	bad Homburg Butzbach Darmstadt Frankfurt (Main) Heidelberg Kaiserslautern Karlsruhe Mannheim
Halle (Saale)	Delitzscher Strasse 3	February 1, 1934	Halle (Saale) Gera 1 Gera 2 Weissenfels
Hanover	Lavestrasse 77/78	February 1, 1934	Brandenburg Braunschweig Castle near Magdeburg Hanover-Bothfeld Helmstedt Magdeburg
kassel	Kronprinzenstrasse 1/2	May 1, 1934	Goettingen Hann. Münden Hersfeld Kassel-Bettenhausen Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
Cologne	Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer 3	November 1, 1933	Hilden Cologne Opladen 1 Opladen 2
Königsberg (Prussia)	Langgasse 117/121	October 16, 1933	Braunsberg Elblag Königsberg (Prussia)
Munich	Arnulfstrasse 19	September 1, 1933	Augsburg -East Augsburg-West Ingolstadt Munich East Munich-West Rosenheim Traunstein
Nuremberg	Ziegelgasse 9	February 1, 1934	Bayreuth Hilpoltstein Kipfenberg Münchberg Nuremberg Pegnitz Saalfeld / Saale
Szczecin	Oberwiek 1	October 25, 1933	Angermünde Bernau Eberswalde Szczecin 1 Szczecin 2
Stuttgart	Jägerstrasse 11	January 1, 1934	Ludwigsburg Pforzheim Stuttgart Ulm

Web links

• History of the OBR Nuremberg
• The labor camps for the forced deployment of German and non-German Jews in the Third Reich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf Stegemann: Reichsautobahnen - motorways to the east also served the planned war in many ways. In: rothenburg-unterm-hakenkreuz.de. Dr. Oliver Gußmann & Wolf Stegemann, January 20, 2014, accessed on July 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Directorate of the Reichsautobahnen, Supreme Construction Management Dresden. In: archiv.sachsen.de. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Reichsbahndirektion Linz. In: bahnstatistik.de. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 
4. ^ Establishment of the "Reichsautobahnen" society. In: epoche2.de. Thomas Noßke, accessed on July 23, 2017 .