![]() ![]() Before being nationalised each regional railway would have their own locomotives, but now under one company a level of standardisation was attained, but this was also hampered by the poor economy. What the DRG did achieve was standardisation. Unfortunately the plan didn't work as intended, with the Great Depression severely hitting inter-war Germany and putting a large amount of strain on the DRG.ĭRG Class 05 Locomotive manufactured by Borsig. On 12th February 1924 the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) was created as a state enterprise. One part of the Dawes Plan was to use the profits from the state railway to pay back reparations. The Weimar Republic (so called because the first assembly of the government in 1919 was in the town of Weimar) took control of the states' railways in the following areas Baden, Meckleberg, Oldenberg, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtenberg, and Prussia.Īt the end of the war the Treaty of Versailles set out Germany's required reparations, and the Dawes Plan was introduced as a way to manage these payments. ![]() The Deutsche Reichseisenbahnen (German Imperial Railway) was formed on 1st April 1920. This lead to the railway system being nationalised.ĭeutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft: 1920 - 1937 ![]() In 1918 the German Empire fell, and the country became a republic. Before World War One the German railway system was a collection of different companies each serving the particular state that they were in, run autonomously to each other. ![]()
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