Albert von Maybach

Arnold Heinrich Albert Maybach, since 1888 Maybach, ( born November 29, 1822 in Abdinghof in Werne, † January 20, 1904 in Charlottenburg) was a Prussian minister, German railway coordinator and lawyer.

Life

Albert von Maybach was the son of the mayor of Werne, Friedrich Maybach. Maybach attended high school in Recklinghausen and studied law and political science in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin. He entered 1845 into the Prussian judicial service, in 1850 and 1852 Gerichtsassessor Circuit Judge in Hagen.

In 1854, he joined the Prussian Railway Administration, and was from 1858 lecturer Council in the Ministry of Commerce. He was Chairman of the Board of the Upper Silesian Railway in Wroclaw and from 1863 to 1867 Head of the Eastern Railway Directorate in Bydgoszcz. From 1 March 1867 to 9 January 1874, he headed the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate in Hanover.

In efforts of Otto von Bismarck Maybach in 1874 was named the first director of the new Empire Railway Ministry in Berlin. Bismarck's project to acquire the main rail lines to the kingdom failed, however, to the opposition of the middle states. Similarly, the 1875 Maybach to the Federal Council submitted a draft Reich Railway Act was not in the same assumption. Maybach therefore resigned in 1876 his position as President of the powerless Empire Railway Office and was Under Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce.

After Heinrich von Achenbach's resignation, he took over on 30 March 1878 the head of the Department of Commerce and advocated especially for the nationalization of the main railway lines in northern Germany.

On April 17, 1878 Ministry of Public Works of the Ministry of Commerce was outsourced. Maybach was in personal union Minister of Public Works and he was also the administration of the Prussian State Railways transferred. With skill he led it through the extensive acquisitions of private railways for the Prussian state and organized the administration of the vast railway network.

From 1882 to 1888, again from 1890 to 1893 Maybach was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives, where he joined any political group. In 1888 he was elevated to the Prussian nobility.

Since 1842 he was a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn I.

Albert was buried by Maybach at the old St. Matthew's Cemetery in Berlin- Schöneberg ( tomb preserved). Here is also the burial place of his daughter Helene and her husband Robert Haussmann was ( leveled ). At the Tomb of A. v. Maybach there is a reminder inscription for his wife not beige sat here.

Work

His greatest successes were achieved Maybach as a minister in the reform of the railway sector in the Kingdom of Prussia. He built up the Prussian Railway Administration and fought against the interests of the private railway companies, who wanted to prevent crosslinking of their routes. Under his leadership, the major private railway companies were taken over by the Prussian state railways from 1878 to 1891.

After Maybach schools, streets and squares were named as Maybachstraße in Kiel- Gaarden -south. The pit Maybach in the same district of Friedrichsthal in Saarland in 1882 received the name of the Prussian Minister of Public Works. In the vicinity of its effect local Berlin named one of 1883/84 a place and whether its responsibility for waterways in the Maybachufer on the Landwehr canal ( in Rixdorf ) after him.