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[[File:RWE 1910.jpg|thumb|RWE share from 1910 with Goldenberg's signature]]
'''Bernhard Goldenberg''' (* 20 March 1872 in [[Dahlerau]]; † 30 May 1917 in [[Essen]]) was a German engineer.<ref></ref>

== 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.<ref></ref> After his mandatory military service, Goldenberg studied [[Mechanical engineering|mechanical]] and [[electrical engineering]] at the technical universities in [[University of Hanover|Hanover]], [[University of Stuttgart|Stuttgart]] and [[Technical University of Berlin|Berlin]] before becoming a technical advisor to [[Hugo Stinnes]] in 1899. In 1903, after a study trip that had primarily taken him to the [[General Electric]] and [[Thomas Edison|Edison Electric Light Corporation]] plants in the USA<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>, he became Technical Director of [[RWE|Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG]], and in this capacity was responsible for the technical implementation of the rapid expansion of [[electrification]] in the [[Rhineland]] and [[Ruhr|Ruhr area]].<ref></ref> In this capacity, the power plants in Essen (1903), Reisholz (1909), Wesel (1912) and the promontory headquarters in [[Knapsack, Germany|Knapsack]] (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.<ref></ref>

== References ==

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April 22, 2020 at 11:34PM

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