__NOTOC__ Wilfried Paul Feldenkirchen (October 25, 1947 – June 21, 2010) was a

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and

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Life

Wilfried Feldenkirchen was born in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

and studied history, English studies and economics at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. He was awarded a doctorate in 1974 for his thesis on ''Commerce in the City of Cologne in the 18th Century''. In 1980, he earned a Habilitation with his thesis on ''The Iron and Steel Industry of the

Ruhr District The Ruhr ( ; german: Ruhrgebiet , also ''Ruhrpott'' ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a wikt:polycentric, polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population d ...

1879-1914''. Feldenkirchen was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis in 1982. In 1985, he became a professor at the University of Bonn, where he was also director of the University Academic Exchange Service. He held a professorship at

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...

in 1989/1990, and was appointed to the chair of economic, social and business history at the

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

in 1990. In the same year he published a biography of

Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; ; ; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He foun ...

and also collaborated on the Encyclopedia of German History. The focus of his academic work was the economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of banks and savings banks, and the history of agricultural policy. Feldenkirchen was a Rotary Club member (Rotary Club of Euskirchen-Burgfey). In 2010, Feldenkirchen was killed in a car accident in

Hinterzarten Hinterzarten is a resort village in the Black Forest (German: ''Schwarzwald''), located in the southwest of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Although Hinterzarten is mostly famous for its ski jumping, it has many other tourist attractions. ...

while test-driving a replica Siemens Elektrische Viktoria, for which he was the project manager. The replica was built by a coachbuilder from Hinterzarten and had been shown by Siemens at the

Shanghai Expo 2010 Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tr ...

.The fateful test-drive of the "Elektrische Viktoria"
(in German)

Works

* In collaboration with Susanne Hilger: ''Menschen und Marken: 125 Jahre Henkel, 1876–2001''. Publisher: Henkel, Düsseldorf 2001, (404 Pp., henkel.de DF. * ''Die deutsche Wirtschaft im 20. Jahrhundert.'' München 1998, . * ''Werner von Siemens. Erfinder und internationaler Unternehmer.'' Berlin 1992, . * ''Die Eisen- und Stahlindustrie des Ruhrgebiets 1879–1914. Wachstum, Finanzierung und Struktur ihrer Großunternehmen.'' Wiesbaden 1982, . * ''Der Handel der Stadt Köln im 18. Jahrhundert (1700–1814).'' Bonn 1975.

Awards

* 1987: Newcomen-Preis of the

* 1982: Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis

References

External links

*
Webpage at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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