AUGUSTIN Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre AUGUSTIN was born in Kautenbach, where his father was Bahnwärter.
In 1894 he passed the Abgangs Prüfung der Ackerbauschule Ettelbrück and joined the Wilhelm-Luxemburg-Eisenbahn. In September 1898 he completed a training course at the Bahnmeisterschule in Prussia:

Herr Johann Peter Augustin aus Kautenbach hat auf der Bahnmeisterschule in Hildburghausen die Reifeprüfung mit Erfolg bestanden.

He became Bautechniker in Troisvierges.
On 2 December1898 the local press reported:

Eisenbahnliches.
…Versetzt sind zum 1. Dezember: Bautechniker Augustin von Ulflingen nach Bettemburg …

In January 1903, Augustin qualified as Bahnmeister:

Wilhelm-Luxemburg-Eisenbahn. – Hr. Johann Peter Augustin aus Mersch hat in Straßburg die Prüfung für die etatsmäßige Stelle eines Bahnmeisters mit Erfolg bestanden.

He was thus residing in Mersch at the time.
In June of 1903 AUGUSTIN was assigned to Ettelbruck.
AUGUSTIN married Christine GREIVELDINGER, born in 1906 in Beles, daughter of a Grenzaufseher in Troisvierges. AUGUSTIN was still living in Ettelbruck and his occupation was a Bahnmeisterdiätar.
In 1907 he moved to Luxembourg-city where his children were born in the years 1907 to 1920.
AUGUSTIN’s patent applications reveal the subsequent places of residence:

1926 Roodt sur Syr
1928 Ettelbruck
1936 Luxembourg-city

AUGUSTIN died in Luxembourg-city (36 boulevard Stalingrad) in 1953 at the age of 75, as chef de district aux CFL en retraite.

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