Carl Heinrich von Siemens

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Carl Heinrich von Siemens
His grave in Berlin

Carl Heinrich von Siemens (often just Carl von Siemens) (3 March 1829 in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg – 21 March 1906 in Menton, France) was a German entrepreneur, a child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer of the Siemens family, an old family of Goslar, documented since 1384. He is a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and William Siemens, sons of (31 July 1787 – 16 January 1840) and wife (1792 – 8 July 1839). They had two more brothers, (1818–1867) and (December 8, 1828-May 24, 1904), married and father to (6 January 1877 – 25 June 1952 in Berlin), married on May 22, 1920 in Berlin to (1 February 1899 in – 15 May 1950 in Berlin) (the parents of (born 28 September 1921) (born 3 May 1923), (born 31 July 1926) and (born 8 November 1928).

In 1853, Carl Siemens traveled to St. Petersburg where he established the branch office of his brothers company Siemens & Halske. Siemens had a contract for constructing the Russian telegraph network at the time.[1]

Carl went to England in 1869, where he assisted his brother William. In the 1880s, he returned to Russia before he became the senior chief executive of Siemens & Halske after the death of his brother Werner in 1892. He resigned in 1904.

For his service to Russia, he was ennobled by Tsar Nicholas II in 1895. His grave is preserved in the Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.

References[]

  1. ^ Coopersmith, Jonathan (1992). "Electrification, 1886–1914". The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926. Cornell University Press. pp. 42–98. ISBN 978-1-5017-0716-2. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt1g69x9s.8.
  • Shaping the Future. The Siemens Entrepreneurs 1847–2018. Ed. Siemens Historical Institute, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 9-783867-746243.
  • Martin Lutz: Carl von Siemens 1829–1906. A life between Family and World Firm. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-033-05599-5.

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