Reichsbahndirektion Würzburg
The Reichsbahndirektion Würzburg was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn that existed from 1920 to 1930. It went back to the Würzburg Railway Office established in 1854 and the Würzburg Railway Directorate of the Royal Bavarian State Railways founded in 1907 .
history
Direct precursor of Reichsbahndirektion Würzburg was founded in 1907 by the Bavarian State Railways Eisenbahndirektion Würzburg . This went on in 1854 after completion of the Ludwig-Western Railway in Würzburg furnished Rail Authority Würzburg back, that from 1875 the designation of top web office Würzburg and from 1901 railway operation Directorate Würzburg wore. The railway and upper railway offices were abolished by the Bavarian State Railways in 1907 and the entire network was reorganized into five railway departments. After the transfer of the Länderbahn into the ownership of the German Reich in 1920, the management was initially referred to as the General Directorate of Würzburg , until Reich Transport Minister Wilhelm Groener determined the designation of the Reichsbahndirektion for all directorates in 1922 . From 1924 until its dissolution, the Reichsbahndirektion Würzburg, like all Bavarian directorates, was subordinate to the Bavarian group administration.
On March 31, 1930, the Reichsbahndirektion was dissolved, with the processing extending over the whole of 1930. The local responsibility of the former Reichsbahndirektion Würzburg was divided between the Reichsbahndirektion Augsburg and the Reichsbahndirektion Nürnberg . The Donauwörth – Aalen railway between Hoppingen and the border with the RBD Stuttgart and the lines from Nördlingen station to Gunzenhausen (only), Wemding and Dombühl (only) fell to the RBD Augsburg . All other lines of the dissolved RBD Würzburg passed into the jurisdiction of the Reichsbahndirektion Nürnberg.
Route network
The area of management extended from the northern Bavarian border at Aschaffenburg and Meiningen to shortly before the Danube at Donauwörth and extended mainly over the area of what is now the Lower Franconia district and the western part of the Middle Franconia district . In addition, some routes in the northernmost part of the Swabian district , in southern Thuringia and short sections in neighboring Hesse belonged to the Würzburg management. Important main routes were:
- Railway line Würzburg – Aschaffenburg (Main-Spessart-Bahn)
- Würzburg – Nuremberg railway line
- Bamberg – Würzburg railway line
- Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line
- Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line
Railway depots existed in Aschaffenburg , Ansbach , Gemünden am Main , Nördlingen , Schweinfurt and Würzburg .
President
Between 1907 and 1930 the presidents of the Würzburg management were:
- Karl von Welcker (January 1907 - before October 1919)
- Konrad Dasch (October 1, 1919 - October 16, 1921)
- vacant
- Valentin Koch (April 1, 1922 - March 31, 1929)
- Ferdinand Käppel (President of the RBD Nuremberg, acting April 3, 1929 - December 31, 1930)
Web links
- bahnstatistik.de: RBD Würzburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred C. Mierzejewski: The most valuable asset of the Reich. A history of the German National Railway. Volume 1: 1920-1932. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill / London 1999, p. 26.
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of February 22, 1930, No. 11. Announcement No. 123, p. 56.
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of January 4, 1930, No. 1. Announcement No. 4, p. 2.
- ↑ Joachim Lilla : Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945. V. Financial, postal and railway administration authorities ( bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de ), accessed on May 27, 2019.