Ralf Roman Rossberg

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Ralf Roman Rossberg (born July 2, 1934 in Dresden ; † November 18, 2017 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German journalist and author who wrote on railroad topics in particular .

After spending his childhood in Dresden, the city of his birth, he and his family fled to Bavaria at the end of the Second World War. From 1949 he worked as a journalist for various newspapers, later he studied electrical engineering in Munich and Berlin. In 1961 he went to the Deutsche Bundesbahn and worked for their press service for less than four decades. At the same time he continued to write articles for various magazines and a large number of books about the railroad, including for the railroad courier .

Great attention was paid to a. first published in 1980, the book Frontier over German Rails , which documented the effects of the division of Germany on the German railway system. Also important is his book History of the Railway , the first edition of which appeared in 1978 and was later published in several new editions.

Works (selection)

  • History of the railway . Sigloch Service Ed., Künzelsau 1978, ISBN 3-89393-174-0 .
  • Border over German rails . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-88255-828-8 .
  • The Jungfrau region and its railways. Hallwag, Bern / Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-444-06064-5 .
  • From the Altmühl to the Zugspitze. The railway in southern Bavaria . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 1987, ISBN 978-3-88255-802-9 .
  • German Railway Vehicles - From 1838 to today , (Ed. Ralf Roman Rossberg), VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-18-400758-8
  • Railway winter in Werdenfelser Land . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1576-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memory of Ralf Roman Rossberg . in: Railway courier . November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rossberg, Ralf Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2017
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee