Foreword: * 22 October 1908 in Berlin † 16 April 1979. Walther Brandt began his career in the administration of Mitropa. In 1939 he was transferred to the travel agency of the Kriegsmarine until he was finally drafted into the Wehrmacht. After the war he worked for the Brandenburgische Landesbahn, then changed to the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin and started working for the Deutsche Schlafwagen- und Speisewagengesellschaft. Until his retirement in 1973 he worked for the Bundesbahn-Zentralamt Minden, where he was responsible for the subject area "private cars". In addition to his numerous specialist articles, he publishes the two specialist books "Schlaf- und Speisewagen der Eisenbahn" and "Vom furigen Elias und der genften Elise". His collection and literary focus was on sleeping cars and dining cars as well as private and small railways. The focus of the stock is generally on the construction and operation of passenger trains and in particular on passenger, sleeping and saloon cars. For this purpose, materials from his work at Brandenburgische Landesbahn, Deutsche Schlafwagen- und Speisewagengesellschaft and Bundesbahn-Zentralamt Minden are available. In addition to this spectrum of collections, the collection also contains collections on locomotives and equipment of the railways, on securing rail traffic and on its historical development. There are also writings about railway and company anniversaries, as well as railway songs, poems and satirical representations of the railway journey. The written material is available in printed as well as handwritten form. The main part of the written material consists of newspaper and magazine articles or copies thereof. In addition, there are advertising materials from locomotive factories and passenger train providers, as well as flyers, special prints and photographs. The collection also contains some of his manuscripts and published articles. The collection was purchased by the Archive in 2015. It has a scope of 201 units of distortion with a duration of 1814-1979
