Walter Schmidt (railway worker)

Walter Schmidt (born June 1, 1892 in Chemnitz ; † December 26, 1948 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a German civil servant in the Reichsbahnverwaltung and most recently president of the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden .

Life

Schmidt was a son of the factory owner Max Heinrich Schmidt. He passed the final exam in Chemnitz at Easter 1911 and studied law in Tübingen and Leipzig . In Tübingen he was a member of the Corps Rhenania and founder of the Tübinger Waffenring . After his legal traineeship in 1914, he joined the army as a war volunteer . In 1918 he retired from active military service as a lieutenant in the reserve. Before that, he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1921 he became a court assessor, but shortly afterwards transferred to the Reichsbahnverwaltung. Schmidt became a member of the government in 1924, and from 1925 in the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin. In 1927 he became a senior government councilor, in 1929 head of the traffic and transport department at the Reichsbahndirektion Opole , then head of the freight tariff department in Wroclaw . From 1935 he was director of the Reichsbahn in Essen . In 1936 he became President of the Dresden Railway Directorate. When invasion arrested by the Red Army in 1945, Schmidt was recently interned at Buchenwald, where he died 1948th

Fonts

• Walter Schmidt: Guiding principles of the rail freight tariff policy, with outlooks on d. Tariff policy d. Reichsbahn in the Saxon economic areas . In: Writings of the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Leipzig; H. 1 . Meiner, Leipzig 1938.

literature

• R. Assmann, R. Ruff, HJ Vogel: The Tübinger Rhenanen . 1982, p. 142 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book of the Dead of the Buchenwald Memorial