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150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1952 - 1.50 Shilling

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150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1952 - 1.50 Shilling


Theme: Well-known people
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1952
Face Value1.50 
Colorblue
Printing TypePhotogravure
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number314
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID108977
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On the occasion of the opening of the new Semmering Tunnel, the Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration issued a commemorative stamp for the great pioneer of the railway system. Karl Ritter von Ghega out. He was born on the 10th of January 1802 in Venice and came from a respected sea-brigade. Already at the age of fifteen, he obtained the diploma of an "engineer licentiate" from the military college of St. Anna in Venice. He then studied at the University of Padua, where he earned the degree of engineer and architect and in 1819 the doctoral degree in mathematics. After this training he entered the service of the Landesbaudirektion of his hometown. His greatest work was the construction of the Semmering Railway. After on June 27, 1848, the first construction contract by Minister Dr. Ing. Baumgartner was granted, decided on March 1, 1849, a decisive Council of Ministers, chaired by the young Emperor Franz Josef I., to continue the railroading begun by Gloggnitz and complete it. 16,000 workers were under the overall direction of Dr. Ing. Ghega, and this is how the masterpiece of the first Alpine railway on Lower Austrian soil, the 41-kilometer-long Semmering Railway, was born.

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On the occasion of the opening of the new Semmering Tunnel, the Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration issued a commemorative stamp for the great pioneer of the railway system. Karl Ritter von Ghega out. He was born on the 10th of January 1802 in Venice and came from a respected sea-brigade. Already at the age of fifteen, he obtained the diploma of an "engineer licentiate" from the military college of St. Anna in Venice. He then studied at the University of Padua, where he earned the degree of engineer and architect and in 1819 the doctoral degree in mathematics. After this training he entered the service of the Landesbaudirektion of his hometown. His greatest work was the construction of the Semmering Railway. After on June 27, 1848, the first construction contract by Minister Dr. Ing. Baumgartner was granted, decided on March 1, 1849, a decisive Council of Ministers, chaired by the young Emperor Franz Josef I., to continue the railroading begun by Gloggnitz and complete it. 16,000 workers were under the overall direction of Dr. Ing. Ghega, and this is how the masterpiece of the first Alpine railway on Lower Austrian soil, the 41-kilometer-long Semmering Railway, was born..