The Verein zur Vorbereitung der Autostraße Hansestädte–Frankfurt–Basel (English: Association for the preparation of the motorway Hanseatic cities–Frankfurt–Basel ), commonly referred to as HaFraBa , was an organization dedicated to developing one of the first large Autobahn projects in Germany .
6-487: The association was founded on November 6, 1926 as "Verein zum Bau einer Straße für den Kraftwagen-Schnellverkehr von Hamburg über Frankfurt a.M. nach Basel" (English: Association for the building of a road for the automobile fast-moving traffic from Hamburg over Frankfurt to Basel ) by Robert Otzen . On May 31, 1928 the association was renamed as the Verein zur Vorbereitung der Autostraße Hansestädte–Frankfurt–Basel to include
12-465: The Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Lübeck into the planning. As the terms Hamburg and Hansestädte begin with the same letters the abbreviation HaFraBa could be maintained. Initial planning saw a motorway link from Hamburg to Hanover and from Frankfurt to Basel (and from Basel to Genoa ) with later planning including Bremen and Lübeck. The plans almost matched the current Autobahn 5 and
18-531: The German word for railway), the equivalent of motorway (British English) or freeway (US English). . When a single high speed roadway was built on the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Basel route, Otzen felt that only an entire network of such roads would attract the political support needed for such a project to be built. This German engineer, inventor or industrial designer biographical article
24-642: The Northern part of the Autobahn 7 . In 1930, for each city, detailed plannings of the linkage to the Hafraba was presented in summaries subtitled "Städte an den Hafrabastraßen" (English: Cities on the roads of Hafraba ) by J. F. Amberger ( Heidelberg ), Adolf Elsaesser ( director of urban planning of Mannheim ), Theodor Krebs ( Darmstadt ), Maurer ( Mainz ), Rehorn (chief of traffic of Kassel ) and Carl Thalenhorst ( senator of building authorities of Bremen ) in
30-519: The newspaper Hafraba-Mitteilungsblatt . As the government saw no need to this project, the HaFraBa planned to implement a toll system to provide financing. The calculations resulted in the following prices: At first, the project was rejected by the Nazis but after the takeover by Adolf Hitler , the plans where partially adopted when building Autobahn 5 and Autobahn 7 . The name of the association
36-770: Was later changed to Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung der Reichsautobahnen (English: Society for the Preparation of the Autobahnen of the Third Reich ). Robert Otzen Robert Friedrich Ehlert Otzen (9 May 1872 in Giesensdorf - 3 October 1934 in Hanover ) was a German infrastructure engineer. He is considered the inventor of the word Autobahn when he was head of the Stufa car lobby group (Bahn being
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