HaFraBa

HaFraBa eV is the short name of the association to prepare the highway Hanseatic cities -Frankfurt -Basel and thus the first major highway project in Germany.

The club was founded on November 6, 1926 as the Association for the construction of a road for motor vehicles in rapid transit from Hamburg via Frankfurt to Basel from road construction companies under the leadership of Robert Otzen and projected a motorway connection from Hamburg to Hannover and Frankfurt am Main to Basel ( and then continue through Switzerland to Genoa). The then planned route is similar to the outline of the current A 5 motorway ( between Heidelberg and Darmstadt, notwithstanding the A656, parts of the A 6 and A 67) and the northern part of the A 7

On 31 May 1928, the club was renamed the club to prepare the highway Hanseatic cities -Frankfurt -Basel to also include the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Lübeck in the planning process can - it remained the abbreviation HaFraBa fittingly unchanged.

In 1930 in several summary articles with the subtitle cities on the Hafrabastraßen by JF Amberger (Heidelberg ), Adolf Elsaesser ( Director of Town Planning Mannheim), Theodor cancer ( Darmstadt), Maurer ( Mainz), Rehorn (Traffic Director Kassel ) and Carl Thalenhorst ( Senator for Construction Administration Bremen) in Hafraba Handout of the detailed plans of the respective cities to connect the Hafraba presented.

Since the public authorities did not recognize any need for the project, had been thought to finance a toll system. The calculations resulted in the following prices:

• A car with driver: 3 penny per kilometer
• Each additional person: 1 penny per kilometer
• Trucks: 2 penny per kilometer
• Loading: ½ penny per tonne per kilometer

The project initially met with rejection by the Nazis. After Hitler's takeover plans were partially accepted; the name of the association in " Society for the preparation of Reichsautobahnen " changed.