Michael Farrenkopf

Michael Farrenkopf (born 1966 ) is a German historian.

Career

Farrenkopf studied history, journalism and art history at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and in Berlin (FU, TU and HU). He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 2000 on the risk of explosion in industrial Ruhr mining caused by firedamp and coal dust between 1850 and 1914. Since 2001 he has been director of the Mining History Documentation Center and research director in the field of mining history at the German Mining Museum in Bochum .

Michael Farrenkopf, Stefan Przigoda: Black Silver. The history of the Sophia-Jacoba coal mine . Hückelhoven / Essen, 1997.
Michael Farrenkopf, Evelyn Kroker : Mine accidents in German-speaking countries. Catalog of the mines, victims, causes and sources. Bochum, 1998
Michael Farrenkopf: Firedamp and coal dust. The risk of explosion in industrial Ruhr mining (1850-1914). Dissertation. Bochum 2003 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum, No. 121; = publications from the Mining Archive, No. 14).
Michael Ganzelewski: 75 years of the German Mining Museum Bochum as reflected in the selected exhibits. A tour of the history of the DBM - short guide. Bochum, 2005.
Michael Ganzelewski, Michael Ganzelewski, Stefan Przigoda: Courrières 1906 - A catastrophe in Europe . Explosion risk and solidarity in mining. Guide and catalog for the exhibition, with the collaboration of Bochum, 2006 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum, no. 143; = publications from the mining archive, no. 18).