# Bernhard Goldenberg

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**Bernhard Goldenberg** (20 March 1872 in [Dahlerau](/source/Dahlerau) – 30 May 1917 in [Essen](/source/Essen)) was a German engineer.[1]

## Life

Goldenberg was the son of Friedrich Goldenberg, the head of the dye works at the Wülfing works and son. Later he also did a practical training in mechanical engineering at the Wülfing works.[2] After his mandatory military service, Goldenberg studied [mechanical](/source/Mechanical_engineering) and [electrical engineering](/source/Electrical_engineering) at the technical universities in [Hannover](/source/Technical_University_of_Hannover), [Stuttgart](/source/University_of_Stuttgart) and [Berlin](/source/Technical_University_of_Berlin) before becoming a technical advisor to [Hugo Stinnes](/source/Hugo_Stinnes) in 1899. In 1903, after a study trip that had primarily taken him to the [General Electric](/source/General_Electric) and [Edison Electric Light Corporation](/source/Thomas_Edison) plants in the US,[3] he became Technical Director of [Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG](/source/RWE), and in this capacity was responsible for the technical implementation of the rapid expansion of [electrification](/source/Electrification) in the [Rhineland](/source/Rhineland) and [Ruhr area](/source/Ruhr).[4] In this capacity, the power plants in Essen (1903), Reisholz (1909), Wesel (1912) and the promontory headquarters in [Knapsack](/source/Knapsack,_Germany) (April 1914), later named after Goldenberg, were built in rapid succession.

After his death in 1917, after a five-day hospital stay and battle with pneumonia, RWE named the Goldenberg-Werk lignite-fired power plant in Knapsack near Cologne after him at Stinnes' suggestion.[5]

## References

1. ["Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum"](https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016322/images/index.html?seite=618). *daten.digitale-sammlungen.de*. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

1. ["Radevormwald - Stadtnetz Ing. Bernhard Goldenberg, geb. 20.3.1873"](https://www.stadtnetz-radevormwald.de/article10326-2075.html). *www.stadtnetz-radevormwald.de*. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

1. Feldman (1998). [*Hugo Stinnes: Biographie eines Industriellen, 1870-1924*](https://books.google.com/books?id=osAYjwoANBQC&q=bernhard+goldenberg&pg=PA44) (in German). C.H.Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-43582-9.

1. Biographie, Deutsche. ["Goldenberg, Bernhard - Deutsche Biographie"](https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz21567.html) (in German). *www.deutsche-biographie.de*. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

1. ["Kraftwerk Goldenberg"](http://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Kraftwerk-Goldenberg--1383.htm). *baukunst-nrw*. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

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