Georg Klingenberg

Georg Klingenberg was a German electrical engineer who became one of the leading power station designers of the early twentieth century. As a long-serving board member of the German electrical firm AEG, Klingenberg planned and built more than seventy power stations over his career, ranging from small local plants to large central generating stations, and he developed influential technical concepts for how a modern power plant should be laid out and equipped for maximum efficiency and reliability. His culminating design was a large steam power plant at Rummelsburg near Berlin, which after its completion was renamed the Klingenberg power station in his honor and served for decades as a benchmark example of large-scale, efficient thermal power generation for a growing metropolitan electricity grid. Klingenberg's career work helped establish the engineering standards by which large central power stations were designed as electricity supply expanded rapidly across German cities in the early twentieth century.