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Friedrich Harkort (February 22, 1793, Hagen - March 6, 1880), known as the "Father of the Ruhr," was an early prominent German industrialist and pioneer of industrial development in the Ruhr region.[1]
In 1819, he founded the first industrial workshop at Castle Wetter. An early proponent of railroads, he proposed the construction of a railway line from Cologne to Minden in 1825, which eventuated as the Cologne-Minden trunk line, completed in 1847. In 1826 he built a small test track, as a monorail following a design of the Englishman Henry Robinson Palmer.
Berger, Louis. Friedrich Harkort: Erinnerungen eines Enkels (1930) (in German)
Friedrich Harkort in seinen unbekannten Gedichten, in unveröffentlichten Briefen und Dokumenten (in German), Essen-Rüttenscheid: Bacmeister Nationalverlag, 1937
Der alte Harkort: ein westfälisches Lebens- und Zeitbild (in German), Leipzig: Baedeker, 1890 (Onlinefassung)
Friedrich Harkort (in German), Münster: Landesbildstelle Westfalen, 1993
Aloys Meister: Friedrich Harkort (1793–1880). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien, Band I. Aschendorff, Münster 1931, S. 38-72.
Köpfe der Ruhr. 200 Jahre Industriegeschichte und Strukturwandel im Lichte von Biografien (in German), Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2009, pp. 26–31, ISBN978-3-8375-0036-3
Bahnbrecher der Industrie (in German), Leipzig: Lühe, 1939
