State Railway Directorate Stettin
The Reichsbahndirektion Stettin was a railway directorate based in Stettin .
history
Organizational forerunners of the management were the Royal Directorate of the Berlin-Szczecin Railway of the Prussian State Railways from 1879 and the Royal Railway Directorate Stettin (KED Stettin) from 1895. When the Prussian State Railroad became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920, the management received the Designation Reichsbahndirektion Stettin .
On March 20, 1945, the Reichsbahndirektion moved its headquarters to Neustrelitz , although staff of around 500 remained in Stettin for the time being. A branch of the car office was to be built in Prenzlau and one in Stralsund . On April 4, the Prenzlau department was relocated to Neustrelitz. On April 27, 1945, the senior staff, including the President of the Reich Railway Directorate, Bruno Wenzel , fled with the so-called “command train” from Neustrelitz via Rostock and Lübeck to Schleswig-Holstein . On May 2, 1945, the RBD Stettin was given up "because of the loss of the district", and in July 1945 it was formally dissolved in Benz station (on the Malente-Gremsmühlen-Lütjenburg railway ). The command train had previously been distributed over three stations, as there was no platform of that length: Benz, Lensahn and Oldenburg . A memorial plaque on the station building in Benz reminds of the dissolution.
After the invasion of the Soviet armed forces, the RBD Stettin initially resumed operations in Stettin. At this point in time, the exact demarcation of the eastern areas coming under Polish administration was still unclear. On July 21, 1945, following the takeover of Szczecin by the Polish administration, the management was relocated to Pasewalk on the instructions of SMAD , initially referred to as "RBD Stettin, Pasewalk headquarters". Since no suitable rooms were available for the management in the heavily destroyed Pasewalk, it was relocated to Greifswald on October 6, 1945 . Until 1991 what is now the Reichsbahndirektion Greifswald was part of the Reichsbahn in the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 in the GDR.
Area of responsibility
The area of the directorate extended for the most part over the Prussian province of Pomerania and reached in the west to Rostock , in the southwest to the gates of Berlin . Significant routes within the management were:
- (Berlin) - Neustrelitz - Neubrandenburg - Stralsund - Saßnitz (harbor) - ( Sweden )
- (Berlin) - Angermünde - Stettin and Pasewalk - Stralsund of the Szczecin Railway
- Szczecin - Stargard - Köslin - Stolp - Lauenburg (Pomerania) - ( Danzig )
A directory of the depot of the Szczecin Directorate can be found under List of depot in Germany .
Web links
literature
- Rudi Buchweitz , Rudi Dobbert, Wolfhard Noack: German Railway Directorates . Railway directorates in Stettin, Pasewalk and Greifswald 1851–1990 . Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-933254-86-3 .
- Horst Brock, Detlef Kirchner, Paula Schumann: Railway directorates in Stettin and the end of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Stettin . In: Historischer Arbeitskreis Stettin (Ed.): Stettiner Hefte . No. 13 . Lübeck 2008.
- Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007466-0