Albert von Maybach

Arnold Heinrich Albert von Maybach (29 November 1822 – 21 January 1904)[1] was a German lawyer, politician and railway manager.

In 1854 he switched careers and joined the headquarters of the Prussian state railways and from 1858 he was an official (a Vortragender Rat) in the Ministry of Trade.

Bismarck's project to purchase the main railway lines for the German Empire failed, however, due to opposition from Germany's central states.

Maybach gave up his post as president of the toothless Reich Railway Office in 1876 and was nominated as Under Secretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Trade.

After the resignation of Heinrich von Achenbach, he took over as head of the Ministry on 30 March 1878 and made his top priority the nationalisations of the most important railway lines in northern Germany.