The German Federal Railroads were the state railway of the Federal Republic of Germany. To 1 January 1994 it came up together with the German National Railroad in the according to commercial law organized finance company German course AG. The German Federal Railroads developed effective 7 September 1949 as a successor of the German National Railroad society (DRG) in the united Wirtschaftsgebiet.Am 1 July 1952 became it also the South West German railways (SWDE) for the French zone integrate. It became thereby the uniform state railway of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Federal Railroads were a non-legally responsible special estate of the Federal Republic, which however in own name complained and could be sued.

Mass motorizing

For the German Federal Railroads a ever more sharply becoming competition was characteristic around the portions of the traffic market against the mass motorizing. In order to escape the rising costses, like an authority the led state railway put unprofitable secondary lines generally speaking to frameworks quietly. Supplementing new buildings were not established as at all against it up to some long-distance traffic distances like the bird airline or the high-speed distances as well. As Bewirtschafterin of the feeding and sleeping cars as well as the catering trade the German sleeping car and food car company (DSG, later German service company of the course) were created.

Structural change

Instead a structural change was accomplished with the kinds of traction, at whose end the steam engines were not any longer needed and were replaced by modern electric locomotives as well as diesel locomotives. At the same time nearly all main routes in the old Federal Republic of Germany - last in the country Schleswig-Holstein - were electrified. For the passenger in the passenger traffic the structural change entailed the introduction of new course kinds like the intertown center and the dte. The concept and the development of the vehicles for the ICE decrease/go back likewise on planning of the German Federal Railroads.

In the goods traffic the dispatch was completely stopped by bulks, after the competition was not to be held out against the forwarding trade any longer. In consequence of this development a large number of marshalling yards were shut down. In the same period the transport of bulk goods decreased/went back likewise as coal or iron ore.

1985 were the German Federal Railroads still the third biggest employer in the Federal Republic and employed 322,383 coworkers.

Arrangement of the German Federal Railroads

• Central instance: Head office of the German Federal Railroads, seat Frankfurt/Main
• Central instance
  • Managements
  • Central transportation line, seat Mainz
  • Federal Railroads central offices, seat Minden and Munich
  • Federal Railroads social office, seat Frankfurt/Main
  • Central sales management
  • Office for advertising, seat Nuremberg
  • Film and picture place of the German Federal Railroads, seat Nuremberg
  • Central office for workshop service
  • Central office for data processing and marketing and management
• Office instance (arranged into operating, machine and offices for new building and general agencies), further authorities of the office instance were:
  • Institutes for attempt
  • Offices for acceptance
  • Repair works
• Agencies of the field service were arranged in main and Nebendienststellen as well as after the following fields of activity:
  • Technical agency
  • Traffic-technical agency
  • Structural agency
  • Mechanical engineering agencies

The Federal Railroads was attached the course police.

For communication BASA was used.

First presidents of the German Federal Railroads

• Heinz Maria Oeftering Federal Railroads president of 13. May 1957 to 12. May 1972
• Wolfgang Vaerst of 13. May 1972 to 12. May 1982
• Pure Gohlke, of 13. May 1982 to 18 July 1990
• Heinz dry, from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1993 (afterwards chairmen of the board of the German course AG)

German National Railroad and German course AG

The portion of the old German National Railroad remaining in the Soviet zone and West Berlin was transferred in the GDR nearly invariably under the name "German National Railroad".

Both German state railways came up with the course reform together with the West-Berliner administration of the former National Railroad ability on 1 January 1994 in the federal railway ability. The business part for furnishing railway traffic capacities and for the operation of the railway infrastructure was separated on the "German course corporation" created for it on 5 January 1994.

Related links

• The German Federal Railroads from 1949 to 1970

• The German Federal Railroads from 1968 to 1990

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