Aloys Wobben

German businessman (1952–2021)

Aloys Wobben made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Aloys Wobben as German businessman (1952–2021).

Aloys Wobben was born at Rastdorf in 1952. His recorded nationality is Germany.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

The record gives his occupations as entrepreneur, engineer and electrical engineer.

Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.

The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997).

Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Aloys Wobben died in 2021 at the age of 69. The work outlived the arguments around it.

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