Viktor Ferdinand von Kranold

Kranold as a Lusatian from Leipzig

Viktor Ferdinand Kranold , from 1904 by Kranold , (born September 19, 1838 in Eilenburg , † September 22, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German railway official and President of the Royal Railway Directorate (KED) Berlin .

Life

Viktor Kranold attended the Pforta State School . He then studied from 1857-1859 at the University of Leipzig , where he was active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . He finished his studies in 1860 at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University and served as a one-year volunteer . From 1862 he was a trainee lawyer in Eilenburg. As a reserve officer he took part in the German-Danish War and the German War . After the assessor exam, he joined the State Railway Administration in 1867. In 1868 he was an unskilled worker at the Royal Railway Authority in Wroclaw . In 1870 he moved to the Wilhelmsbahn in Ratibor . From this period he was also a member of the Royal Upper Silesian Railway Directorate and five years later became a member of the Royal Lower Silesian-Märkian Railway Directorate based in Berlin. In 1884 he became President of the Breslau Railway Directorate, and in 1893 President of the Berlin Railway Directorate. He held this office until 1904. During his tenure, the suburban line to Groß-Lichterfelde Ost and the Hermannstrasse station in Berlin-Neukölln were built.

Honors

In 1896, Kranold was given the character of a real secret councilor . His corps elected him an honorary member at the 90th foundation festival on July 18, 1897. In 1904 he was ennobled by Wilhelm II (as King of Prussia) . Two squares in Berlin are named after him (in Berlin-Neukölln and at Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost train station ) and one street each in Berlin-Neukölln and Berlin-Kaulsdorf .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3/436.