Michael Fessner

Michael Fessner (* 1957 ) is a German historian who worked in the mining history department at the German Mining Museum in Bochum and has presented several publications on mining history. He received his doctorate in 1992 at the University of Bochum with the dissertation Commercial educational policy in the area of ​​tension between state administration and interest groups: The differentiation of technical secondary schools for the mechanical engineering sector in Prussia 1870-1914 .

Works (selection)

• together with Christoph Bartels and Angelika Friedrich: Thorough illustration of the ancient mine [media combination], Bochum: Dt. Mining Museum no year
• Burkhard Dietz, Michael Fessner, Helmut Maier (eds.): Technical intelligence and "culture factor technology". Cultural ideas of technicians and engineers between the German Empire and the former Federal Republic of Germany. Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment, Volume 2, 1996, pp. 133f.
• Coal and salt. The long way to the industrial Ruhr area , Bochum: Dt. Mining Museum, 1998
• with Andreas Bingener and Christoph Bartels: Schwazer Silber - wasted wealth? Prodigal Habsburgs depending on Upper German capital at the turn of the ages from the Middle Ages to [...] , International Mining Symposium , Schwaz 2002 ISBN 3-850931-68-4
• The Luder family and mining and metallurgy . In: H. Meller, S. Rhein, H.-G. Stephan (Ed.): Luthers Lebenswelten , 2008, pp. 235–243
• together with Andreas Bingener: On broad shoulders. 750 years of the miners' union. Catalog of the exhibition at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, July 1, 2010 - March 20, 2011

Web links

• Michael Fessner, “The Brandenburg coal mining industry at the time of Dr. Carl Arnold Kortums - State Mining Administration and Mining Association "