Reich Railway Directorate East

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Settlement buildings designed by Martin Kießling for the East German Railway Directorate in Frankfurt (Oder), photographed by Hugo Schmölz

The Reichsbahndirektion Osten (RBD Osten) - later Reichsbahndirektion Osten in Frankfurt (Oder) - was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn that existed from 1920 to 1945 . The official seat was initially in Berlin , since 1923 in Frankfurt (Oder) .

history

After the Peace Treaty of Versailles , facilities of the Bydgoszcz , Poznan and Danzig Railway Directorates were in the areas assigned to the Republic of Poland . After the referendum in Upper Silesia , parts of Upper Silesia with the Katowice Railway Directorate there also became Polish. The administration of the facilities of the Prussian Eastern Railway located west of the new German-Polish border along the Oder had to be reorganized.

The new Eastern Railway Directorate was set up on January 10, 1920 in accordance with a decree of December 19, 1919 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, initially provisionally at the Zoologischer Garten station. It was assigned the lines of the KED Berlin , the Reichsbahndirektion Breslau and the Reichsbahndirektion Stettin and, from January 10, 1920, also the Prussian Eastern Railway east of Berlin.

After the founding of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the Railway Directorate was renamed to Reichsbahndirektion Osten on July 6, 1922 . The official seat was relocated from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder) on September 7, 1923 and the name was changed to Reichsbahndirektion Osten in Frankfurt (Oder) . On January 1, 1931, the area of ​​management was expanded again with routes taken over from the Halle Reichsbahndirektion . The headquarters of the management was the former barracks of the Prussian Leib-Grenadier-Regiment on Logenstrasse. Various new buildings were built for the employees of the new management who were moved to this location, including the Paulinenhof railroad settlement based on plans by Martin Kießling .

The headquarters was badly damaged in the fighting for Frankfurt / Oder towards the end of the Second World War and was torn down at the end of the 1950s. The auditorium maximum of the European University Viadrina is located on the site today . The directorate itself was formally dissolved in 1946, the lines remaining west of the Oder went to the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin and the Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus .

stretch

The area of ​​this Reichsbahndirektion extended for the most part over the border mark Posen-West Prussia and the Neumark (landscape) in the east of the province of Brandenburg .

Significant railway lines in the management area were:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 13, 1920, No. 13. Nachrichten, p. 102.
  2. ^ Bahnstatistik.de, Directorates of Ostbahn , accessed on April 15, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Railway statistics, RBD East , accessed on May 27, 2019
  4. ↑ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of September 14, 1923, No. 26. Announcement No. 467, p. 327.
  5. ↑ Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel: Space for 1500 soldiers and NCOs , Märkische Oderzeitung, September 6, 2016 , accessed on May 27, 2019
  6. ^ Gerhard Junge: Nebelschattenschein (life memories). Bremerhaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-86509-966-2 , p. 19

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