Wroclaw Railway Directorate

Reichsbahndirektion Breslau
(previously: Royal Railway Directorate Breslau)

The Reichsbahndirektion Breslau was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn based in Breslau .

history

Initially, the Royal Railway Directorate Breslau (KED Breslau) existed in Breslau from 1856 , when the operation of the Upper Silesian Railway was transferred to the state and its first director Albert von Maybach became. In 1879 it became one of the 11 railway directorates of the Prussian State Railways, which were then reorganized as part of the nationalization wave . When it was absorbed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920 , it was renamed the Reichsbahndirektion Breslau . The area of ​​the directorate extended (until the end of the Second World War ) over most of the Prussian province of Lower Silesia .

Since June 1914, the railway directorate has been building up electrical rail operations in Silesia , experimenting with stationary and rolling material depending on the circumstances. The electrical company connected Breslau in the east with Görlitz in the west of Lower Silesia . The electrical operation collapsed in February 1945 due to the effects of the war.

The approaching eastern front forced the administration of the Reichsbahndirektion to evacuate the offices in 1945. In the early morning of January 27, 1945, the President of the Reich Railway Directorate and a special staff arrived at Görlitz station with a command train . Until the Soviet Army closed the ring around the fortress of Wroclaw , a multiple unit train ran daily between the two cities by courier. The train was only reserved for people with a courier ID. In mid-February 1945, the management staff began to move to Erfurt . The lines west of the Lusatian Neisse were taken over by the Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus after the Second World War .

stretch

Significant routes within the management were:

• the route Sommerfeld - Sagan - Liegnitz - Breslau - Brieg ( Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway )
• the route Görlitz - Lauban - Hirschberg (Riesengeb.) - Waldenburg - Glatz or Breslau ( Silesian Mountain Railway )
• the line Breslau - Glatz - Kamenz (Silesia) - Mittelwalde - further in Czechoslovakia ( railway line Wrocław - Międzylesie )
• the route Wroclaw - Brzeg - ( Opole )
• the line Breslau - Markstädt - on to Opole ( Upper Silesian Railway )
• the line Liegnitz - Königszelt - Kamenz (Silesia) - further to Neisse ( railway line Nysa - Brzeg )
• the Görlitz - Hagenwerder (Nikrisch) - Seidenberg line ( Görlitz – Seidenberg railway )

literature

• Official pocket timetable for the Reichsbahndirektion for Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia and the neighboring areas - Annual timetable 1944/1945 , timetable of the Reichsbahndirektion Wroclaw and Opole - Valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 1st reprint edition 2006, ISBN 978- 3-938997-32-1
• Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer Edition Eisenbahn, Stuttgart a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-17-007466-0 .
• Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 2. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , pp. 1327-1328.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Ottmann: Albert von Maybach . In: Men of the German administration. Cologne 1963, pp. 181-194 (186).
2. ↑ Klee, p. 179.
3. ^ Ralph Schermann: Railway workers without a return ticket . In: Sächsische Zeitung - Görlitzer Nachrichten . May 2, 2015 ( sz-online.de ).

Web links

• Map of RBD Breslau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
• Railway Directorate in Wroclaw Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolution