Pomeranian Central Railway
The Pommersche Centralbahn (often also Pommersche Zentralbahn ) was a private railway company which - after it was insolvent - went bankrupt in 1876 . The route was still unfinished. The company was taken over by the Prussian state and the construction of the route network was completed.
The construction of the Pomeranian Central Railway was approved on July 5, 1870. The railway line should run from Wangerin via Neustettin to Konitz , with a length of about 149 kilometers. The company was founded in 1870 by the commercial bank H. Schuster and Compagnie by the main shareholders H. Schuster and Oder and Hermann Wagener , two supervisory boards of the commercial bank. During construction, the company became insolvent as a result of Lasker's "revelations" on February 7, 1873 and had to file for bankruptcy. The Reichstag member Eduard Lasker (1829-1884) uncovered a fraudulent founding of railway companies that caused a stir. After the bankruptcy, the company was taken over by the Prussian state and the railway line was completed by 1878. In addition to the Pomeranian Central Railway, the Berlin Northern Railway also had to file for bankruptcy.
The entrepreneur Bethel Henry Strousberg also played a role here, who had "cheated" during the construction of the Pomeranian Central Railway and the Berlin Northern Railway.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gust Riegels: The traffic history of the German railways including the current traffic situation for the fiftieth anniversary of the first preuss. Railways in Google Book Search
- ^ Otto Glagau: The stock exchange and start-up fraud in Berlin. on Wikisource
- ^ Central Railway Pomeranian Central Railway . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 13, p. 260.
- ↑ What comes after the internet revolution? ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die Tagespost , April 8, 2004 (accessed March 21, 2010)
