Reichsbahn Central Office

Royal Prussian Central Railway Office in Berlin, 1907

Headquarters of the Reichsbahn Central Office in Berlin on Halleschen Ufer (1931)

The Reichsbahn-Zentralämter (RZA) of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Berlin and Munich were responsible for central tasks in the fields of technical development (in particular the vehicles and the superstructure ) and procurement, the updating of general regulations in the field of technology and accounting as well as the statistical services. Organizationally, they were on the same level as the Reichsbahn directorates .

history

The central offices were founded in 1907 as the Royal Prussian Railway Central Office of the Prussian State Railways in Berlin and the Central Machine Construction Office of the Royal Bavarian State Railways in Munich. When the Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded in 1920, it took over the central offices, with the Central Office in Munich operating as the Central Machinery and Construction Office until 1933 as part of the largely independent Bavarian group administration . After the group administration was dissolved, it was renamed the Reichsbahn-Zentralamt München.

Between 1930 the Reichsbahn-Zentralamt Berlin was divided into four independent offices. These central Reichsbahn offices for construction and industrial engineering, purchasing, mechanical engineering and accounting were merged again in August 1936. Curt Emmelius , who had previously headed the RZA for mechanical engineering and provisionally the RZA for purchasing (as the successor to Ernst Spiro , who was dismissed for racist reasons ), became director of the unified RZA . In 1945 the RZA Berlin was relocated to Göttingen and continued to be managed by Emmelius until 1947.

Succession

After 1949, the Bundesbahn Central Offices (BZA) in Minden (Westphalia) (relocated from Göttingen) and Munich took over the tasks of the RZA. In the GDR, similar tasks were carried out by the Central Research Institute for Transport in Berlin and the VES-M Halle .

The building on Halleschen Ufer 74-76 was the seat of the administrative office in Berlin (VSt) of the Deutsche Bundesbahn until it was closed; this was attached to the Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg as a department.

Worth knowing

In 1928, the Reichsbahn Central Office in Berlin published a directory of the image strips contained in the Reichsbahn film archive , which recorded all the advertising and educational films held there.

literature

Alfred Gottwaldt : The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period . Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1

Individual evidence

↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of December 6, 1930, No. 57. Announcement No. 803, p. 362.
^ Headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.): Directory of civil servants in the higher service and the local councils 1977 . Verkehrswwissenschaftliche Lehrmittelgesellschaft mbH, Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-921200-05-9 , p. 249 .
^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of November 24, 1928, No. 52. Films of the Reichsbahn , p. 324.

[1] Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of December 6, 1930, No. 57. Announcement No. 803, p. 362.

[2] Headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.): Directory of civil servants in the higher service and the local councils 1977 . Verkehrswwissenschaftliche Lehrmittelgesellschaft mbH, Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-921200-05-9 , p. 249 .

[3] Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of November 24, 1928, No. 52. Films of the Reichsbahn , p. 324.