On 22 December 1939 the worst railway accident in German history occurred at Genthin station, with 278 people killed and another 453 people seriously injured.
Bernd Dittert (born February 6, 1961 in Genthin) is a retired racing cyclist from East Germany, who won the bronze medal for his native country in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
They were all stabled in Jerichow shed in 1960 and their sphere of operations until 1968 was the branch line network of the Kleinbahn AG in Genthin.
It was situated north of Genthin, which was the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft, but not part of it.
Upon finishing school in 1902, Niel completed his apprenticeship with the Genthin choirmaster Adolf Büchner.
With 64 people killed and some 230 seriously injured, it was the deadliest train accident in German history until the collision of two D-Trains at Genthin Railway Station on 21 December 1939, which claimed 278 casualties.
The city of Jerichow lies on an ancient branch of the Elbe River between Stendal and Genthin, 31 miles ( 50 kilometers ) northeast of Magdeburg.
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The routes to Schönhausen, Genthin and Güsen were built by the Kleinbahn-AG in Genthin.
In 1820 he earned his doctorate from the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and spent the next several years as a general practitioner in the cities of Bernau, Rathenow and Genthin.
As earlier the same day two express trains had collided with each other in Genthin in Saxony-Anhalt with (186 deaths), it was the worst day of German railway history.
The town of Stendal, which had no rail connection, sought a continuation of the line from Potsdam via Genthin and Stendal to Hamburg.
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