Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff

Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Boegendorff, first general director of the Royal Saxon State Railways

Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (also von Tschirschky and Boegendorff) (* March 12, 1818 in Dresden ; † October 8, 1903 there ) was a Royal Saxon Real Secret Council and the first General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways .

Life

Otto von Tschirschky and Bögendorff came from the Silesian noble family von Tschirschky (originally Schirouski from Breslau, other spellings including later Schirisky, Tschirszke and Tschirsky) from the ancestral home of the Silesian line of Tschirschky and Boegendorff. He is the first son of Friedrich Julius von Tschirschky (1777-1853), the Royal Saxon Council of War who came to Saxony at the beginning of the 19th century , and his second wife Henriette Marianne Sophie von Zezschwitz . Be born ten years later brother Adolph Leopold Royal Saxon Lieutenant General à la suite of rifle Fusilier - Regiment No. 108th.

Otto, who began his career early on as an employee in the royal Saxon administrative apparatus, was appointed as one of the three Saxon representatives as a finance advisor to the Royal Saxon Ministry of Finance at the general assembly of the Association of German Railway Administrations convened from October 16 to 20 in Vienna in 1849 of the Royal Saxon State Railways and was therefore not yet an employee of the later Saxon State Railways . At that time, the Saxon State Railroad, with a route network of only 31  miles , had the right to vote with three representatives in this association.

After the Saxon State took over the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company with its route from Dresden to Görlitz on January 31, 1851 , and finally on September 14, 1852 the previous management of the Saxon-Bohemian State Railway was renamed the "Royal Saxon State Railway Directorate to Dresden" and was also responsible for the route to Görlitz, the way for a higher civil service in the Saxon railway system was now free for von Tschirschky. In 1855 he became chairman of this railway directorate , which was renamed again in 1858 - to the "Royal Directorate of the Eastern State Railways". In 1859 he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown , 2nd class, by the Emperor of Austria as a secret finance advisor and one of the two chairmen of the state railway directorates .

When the German war with Prussia broke out in 1866 and Saxony sided with its long-term ally Austria , Tschirschky played a significant part in the organization of the transport of Saxon railways to Bohemian-Austrian territory. Countless locomotives and wagons were brought on the former Silesian railway via Löbau and Zittau towards Reichenberg (Liberec) and on the Saxon-Bohemian railway to Bodenbach ( Děčín- Podmokly) so that they did not fall into Prussian hands.

After the gap between the two Saxon State Railways via Chemnitz was closed in 1869 with the Albertsbahn, which began in 1853 , the “Royal General Directorate of the Saxon State Railways” was founded in Dresden, thus merging the Eastern and Western railroad divisions. The Saxon state government appointed Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff as the first general director with effect from July 1, 1869 . Otto had his office on the upper floor of the Bohemian Railway Station in Dresden, which was built between 1861 and 1864 . In addition, the station was enlarged and stocked in 1864. At the time the general management was founded, Tschirschky had a route network of 812 kilometers with 152  stations . At that time, the Saxon state railways had 6.5 million passengers a year.

In 1880 Otto von Tschirschky celebrated his 25th anniversary with the Saxon State Railways. At the same time, he drove forward the construction of narrow-gauge railways in Saxony from this year on. From 1881 to 1887, ten narrow-gauge lines with a total of 157 kilometers in length were built under his leadership. He remained General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways until March 31, 1887 and shortly after his 69th birthday handed over his duties to his successor Ewald Alexander Hoffmann , who took over the position of General Director with effect from April 1, 1887. By 1887, under Tschirschky’s leadership, the rail network in Saxony had grown to 2285 kilometers. Saxony thus had the densest railway network in Germany. Dresden had become one of the most important railway hubs in the German Empire .

Even after his retirement from active civil service with the Saxon State Railways and especially after the death of his second wife, Otto von Tschirschky remained active in the economy . In 1894, at the age of 76 after the death of Felix Freiherr von Kaskel (1833-1894), he took over the post of Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Dresdner Bank . During his time as chairman of the supervisory board , Bremer Bank was taken over, several branches of Dresdner Bank opened in German cities and the first foreign branches . It is interesting that during his time at the bank, Dresdner Bank also acquired a stake in a number of railway and telegraph companies . In 1899, Dresdner Bank became a shareholder in the Deutsche Speisewagen-Gesellschaft . Von Tschirschky held the post of chairman of the supervisory board until his death. He died on October 8, 1903, at the age of 85 at the time, in his native Dresden, and was buried in the Trinity cemetery.

family

Otto von Tschirschky and Bögendorff were married twice. His first marriage was on April 20, 1850 in Dresden with Isidore von Ampach (1829-1851). Their daughter, Isidore Bertha Agnes (born April 6, 1851 in Dresden, † March 22, 1924 in Pirna), who was born in Dresden on April 6, 1851, married the later Royal Saxon General of the Infantry and Minister of War Paul Edler von der Planitz ( 1837-1902).

After the death of his first wife in childbed after the birth of his daughter Isidore, Otto married his second wife Hedwig Auguste von Reiboldt (1824-1894) on June 4, 1853 in Lungwitz about two years later. He had four children with her:

• Marie Auguste (born September 18, 1854 in Dresden),
• Otto Ferdinand (born September 23, 1855 † September 26, 1940 in Dresden), later Chamberlain and Royal Saxon Lieutenant Colonel ,
• Heinrich Leonhard (1858–1916), Imperial German Real Privy Councilor , diplomat and ambassador in Vienna,
• Sibylle Hedwig (born December 18, 1862 in Dresden † 1951 in Lichtenwalde), who married Friedrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt , the Imperial German Legation Councilor in 1897 .

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, German Uradel, 1920, 21st year, Gotha, Justus Perthes
• Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Noble Houses A Volume VII, CA Starke Verlag, 1965
• 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
• Eisenbahn-Zeitung, organ of the Association of German Railway Administrations, VII. Year, Stuttgart, 1849, publisher Etzel a. Small
• Journal of Justice and Administration for the Kingdom of Saxony, Volume 18, Leipzig Verlag by Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1859

Web links

• Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Dresdner Bank

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eisenbahn-Zeitung, organ of the Association of German Railway Administrations, VII. Year, Stuttgart, 1849, publisher Etzel a. Klein, p. 354
2. ^ Journal of Justice and Administration for the Kingdom of Saxony, Volume 18, Leipzig Verlag von Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1859, p. 527
3. ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 2, 1904, p. 248.

predecessor	Office	successor
(no predecessor)	First general director of the Royal Saxon State Railways 1869–1887	Ewald Alexander Hoffmann