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Reiner Preuß (born February 26, 1940 in Zittau ; † July 19, 2014 ) was a German railway engineer , non-fiction and specialist book author . Numerous works originate from him, especially about narrow-gauge railways .

Life

Reiner Preuss spent most of his professional life with the Deutsche Reichsbahn . There he completed an apprenticeship as a railroad worker from 1954 to 1956 and then worked in various jobs in the works service until 1961 . From 1962 to 1965, a technical college studies followed, graduating with a degree in engineering for railway transport and -betriebstechnik. Reiner Preuß then worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn as a service supervisor at train stations as well as in the course of IT project planning.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he worked as a consultant for information technology from 1991 to 2004 .

As an author, he has published on topics of rail transport and rail history in several magazines and numerous books since 1960. He wrote several of these specialist books together with his twin brother Erich . While initially concentrating on various East German narrow-gauge railways , he later worked on the history of the Deutsche Reichsbahn together with his brother. This resulted in the books Die Chronik der Deutschen Reichsbahn 1945–1993. Railway in the GDR (2009) and Deutsche Reichsbahn internally. Secret files, explosive facts (2011).

Reiner Preuss has published most of his books with Transpress Verlag and GeraMond Verlag , both leading German-language publishers for specialist publications on the subject of railways, as well as transport history and technology.

Reiner Preuß lived in Berlin since 1968 .

Fonts

  • together with Erich Preuß : Narrow gauge railways of Upper Lusatia . In the series Transpress traffic history . Transpress, Berlin 1980.
  • as co-author: Narrow gauge between the Baltic Sea and the Ore Mountains . Transpress, Berlin 1980 (West German licensed edition by Alba, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-069-7 ).
  • as co-author: Schmalspurbahn-Archiv . 2nd, revised edition. Transpress, Berlin 1982 (reprinted in the Transpress-Reprint series under the title DDR-Schmalspurbahn-Archiv .) Transpress, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 .
  • together with Erich Preuß: Narrow gauge railways in Saxony. A century of railway history . Transpress, Berlin 1983 (West German licensed edition by Alba, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-87094-091-3 - several editions, most recently as a new edition revised and updated by Reiner Preuß under the title Everything about Schmalspurbahnen in Sachsen . Transpress, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978 -3-613-71440-3 ).
  • together with Fritz Näbrich and Günter Meyer: Locomotives of Saxon Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1984 (West German licensed edition in the series Eisenbahn-Fahrzeug-Archiv bei Alba, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-87094-096-4 )
    • Volume 1: Express and Passenger Train Locomotives
    • Volume 2: Freight and tank locomotives, railcars .
  • together with Fritz Näbrich and Günter Meyer: Lokomotiv-Archiv: Sachsen . Two volumes. Transpress, Berlin 1984.
  • The Müglitztalbahn . In the series Transpress traffic history . Transpress, Berlin 1985 (licensed edition for the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (West), Austria and Switzerland in the series Kleine Verkehrs-Geschichte bei Alba, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-87094-211-8 ).
  • together with Erich Preuß: Lexicon Inventors and Inventions: Railway . Transpress, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-344-00053-5 (Licensed edition for the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (West), Austria and Switzerland by von Decker, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-7685-2586-4 ).
  • Zittau-Kurort Oybin, Kurort Jonsdorf: History of the 100-year-old narrow-gauge railway . German Model Railway Association / Working Group 3 58 / Traditionsbahn Radebeul Ost-Radeburg, Radebeul 1990
  • together with Erich Preuß: Saxon State Railways . Transpress, Berlin, and Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
  • Railway areas: Dresden, Ore Mountains . Transpress, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-344-70754-X .
  • Narrow gauge railways in Germany. History, routes, vehicles . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70913-5 .
  • together with Erich Preuß: Narrow-gauge railways in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg . In the archive of German small and private railways series . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71023-0 .
  • On a narrow track through Saxony. Narrow-gauge railways between Zwickauer Mulde and Neisse . With photos by Thomas Böttger . Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 1998, ISBN 3-9806125-5-4 .
  • The Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Railway . In the series traffic history . Transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71107-9 .
  • together with Reiner Scheffler: Series 99.64-71 . In the series Transpress vehicle portrait . Transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71123-0 .
  • Discover Berlin on rails. Information, city routes and the most beautiful adventure destinations . GeraMond, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-932785-74-6 .
  • Railway travel guide Berlin. Information, routes and experiences . GeraMond, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7654-7066-X .
  • together with Erich Preuß: The Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945–1993. Railway in the GDR . GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 .
  • together with Erich Preuss: Deutsche Reichsbahn intern. Secret files, explosive facts . GeraMond, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86245-109-8 .
  • Wattläufer - railways on Insel & Hallig . Transpress, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-613-71438-0 .
  • Everything about narrow-gauge railways in Upper Lusatia . Transpress, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-613-71431-1 .
  • Locomotives of the Saxon State Railways since 1869 . In the Typenkompass series . Transpress, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-613-71450-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief biographical information on his twin brother Erich in Die Zeit , No. 29/1991 of July 12, 1991 ( online version ; accessed on August 18, 2013)
  2. ↑ Information on the homepage of the Transpress publishing house (accessed on February 15, 2015).
  3. ↑ turntable ; accessed on October 22, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Short biography at Böttger-Bildverlag; Retrieved August 18, 2013
  5. ↑ a b Short biography at GeraMond-Verlag; Retrieved August 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Preuss, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2014