Wolfgang König (historian)

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Wolfgang König (born January 10, 1949 in Pirmasens ) is a German technology historian .

Life

Wolfgang König was born in 1949 in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1967 he studied history, geography, sociology and political science at the Saarland University . In 1973 he took his first state examination in history and geography, and in 1976 he received his doctorate from Saarland University. From 1985 to 2014 he was professor for the history of technology at the Technical University of Berlin . He was visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology and at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing .

He also worked on various committees of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) .

Wolfgang König is the editor of the Propylaea History of Technology .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • University reform in Bavaria in the revolutionary years 1848/49. Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-10808-3 (dissertation, Saarland University, 1976).
  • Engineering sciences. The emergence of electrical engineering from industry and science between 1880 and 1914. Chur: G + B Verlag Faculties, 1995. ISBN 3-7186-5755-4 (softcover).
  • Artist and line puller. Construction and technology cultures in German, British, American and French mechanical engineering between 1850 and 1930. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-28887-3 .
  • History of consumer society (= quarterly for social and economic history. Supplement 154). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07650-6 .
  • Railways and mountains. Transport technology, tourism and nature conservation in the Swiss Alps 1870–1939 (= contributions to historical transport research. Vol. 2). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36500-6 .
  • Volkswagen, people's receiver, national community. “People's Products” in the Third Reich. On the failure of a National Socialist consumer society. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2004, ISBN 3-506-71733-2 .
  • Wilhelm II and the modern age. The emperor and the technical-industrial world. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-75738-8 .
  • Little history of the consumer society. Consumption as a way of life in the modern age. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008; 2nd, revised edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10322-0 .
  • Technology history. An introduction to their concepts and research results (= basics of modern economic history. Vol. 7). Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09423-8 .
  • The scholar and the manager. Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905) and Alois Riedler (1850–1936) in technology, science and society (= Pallas Athene. Vol. 49). Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10665-8 .
  • The condom. On the history of sexuality from the empire to the present (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Volume 237). Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 3-515-11334-7 .
  • History of the throwaway society. The downside of consumption. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-515-12500-0 .

Editorships

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Reinhold Reith, Thorsten Meyer (Ed.): Luxus und Konsum. A historical approximation. Waxmann, Münster 2003, p. 255 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig, announcement from November 20, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 2, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landeskirche-braunschweig.de
personal data
SURNAME King, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens