Anon Mouse
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I'm not sure if anyone on here will have the answer but here goes.
Prior to re-unification of Germany in the days of the Berlin Wall the railways of Germany were split. East German Railways was the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) and West German Railways was the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB). An odd (but understandable given West Berlins isolation in the DDR) element of this was that both the S Bahn in East & West Berlin was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (and a small number of DR ticket vendors in West Berlin too).
My question is, were the employees of the DR who worked on the S Bahn in West Berlin, the DR ticket offices etc based in East Berlin and commuted over the border to work or if (as I imagine) West Berlin citizens employed by the DR and in effect paid by the East German Goverment?
cheers!
Prior to re-unification of Germany in the days of the Berlin Wall the railways of Germany were split. East German Railways was the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) and West German Railways was the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB). An odd (but understandable given West Berlins isolation in the DDR) element of this was that both the S Bahn in East & West Berlin was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (and a small number of DR ticket vendors in West Berlin too).
My question is, were the employees of the DR who worked on the S Bahn in West Berlin, the DR ticket offices etc based in East Berlin and commuted over the border to work or if (as I imagine) West Berlin citizens employed by the DR and in effect paid by the East German Goverment?
cheers!