Bundesbahn Central Offices

Additionally, accounting and statistical services, as well as technical standards for the West German state railway system, were provided by the BZA.

After 1945, the functions of the former Reichsbahn Central Offices (Reichsbahn-Zentralämter, RZA) in Berlin were transferred first to Göttingen, then from 1950 to Minden and in parallel also at Munich.

Later, further research activities of the Deutsche Bahn AG took place in Munich at the site of the former repair shop at München-Freimann at the Völckerstraße location.

A major task of the BZA was the development of rail vehicles, often in collaboration with the heavy engineering firms that would produce the final product.

Since the transformation of the two former state railway companies of East and West Germany the Deutsche Bahn AG, and the subsequent re-organisation the DBAG no longer is so involved in the design of rail vehicles - instead butting them from the international corporations that have developed at around the same time.