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Ludwig Bölkow is dead Ludwig Bölkow passed away on July 25 in Grünwald near Munich, Germany. The aircraft pioneer and co-founder of Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH contributed to the development of the airbag, the German magnetic monorail Transrapid, as well as the world's first jet fighter. In the field of PV, Bölkow become well known for his vision of PV fulfilling the world's energy needs.
Moreover, Bölkow was also the founding shareholder of the liquidated PV company Blue Sun Systems AG (see PI 11/2002, p. 8). The Ludwig Bölkow Foundation, which he started in 1983, is supporting R&D in the field of energy management. Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik GmbH worked as a strategy and technological consultancy for sustainable energy and traffic systems. In its study entitled »Solar Factory 96,« which was commissioned by Greenpeace eight years ago, the Ludwig-Bölkow-Foundation showed that a 20 MW PV factory would result in a price reduction of more than 50 percent. In that study, the foundation primarily examined »the feasibility of an environmentally-friendly and inexhaustible energy system that on the primary energy side relies on solar energy, and on the secondary energy side on hydrogen and electricity.« The foundation's Solux solar lamp (www.solux.org), which is manufactured in developing countries, has replaced around 20,000 oil lamps since its introduction. Ludwig Bölkow was 91 years old. Iris Krampitz
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