Carl Friedrich von Siemens (5 September 1872, in

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– 9 September 1941, in Heinendorf, near

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) was a German Entrepreneur and politician. A member of the Siemens family, he became associated with

Siemens & Halske AG Siemens & Halske AG (or Siemens-Halske) was a German electrical engineering company that later became part of Siemens. It was founded on 12 October 1847 as ''Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske'' by Werner von Siemens and Johann Ge ...

in 1899, his family company. He was responsible for the resurrection of the Siemens Group after the

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. Before his death in 1941, he oversaw state railways for the Reichstag.

Biography

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12413, Wilhelm Cuno und Karl-Friedrich von Siemens

Carl Friedrich von Siemens was born 5 September 1872 in

. Carl Friedrich is the youngest son of

Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; ; ; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He foun ...

by his second wife and relative Antonie Siemens and nephew of Carl Siemens and

William Siemens Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Biography Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Ha ...

. In 1899, Carl Friedrich von Siemens joined the

which was founded by his father and was then led by his elder brothers (today

Siemens AG Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', ''E ...

). From 1901 to 1908, Siemens was a director of the British filial Siemens Brothers & Co in

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and Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works in Stafford. From 1908 to 1912 he established and led the so-called ''Übersee-Abteilung'' which was responsible for the company's activities abroad. He became CEO of the

Siemens-Schuckertwerke Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966. Siemens Schuckert was founded in 1903 when Siemens & ...

in 1912 and chairman of the

supervisory board In corporate governance, a governance board also known as council of delegates are chosen by the stockholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company and to hire and fire the board of directors. In civil s ...

of both

and

in 1919. In this position he was responsible for the resurrection of the Siemens Group after the

. Upon his death in 1941 he was succeeded in both chairmanships by his late brother

Arnold von Siemens Arnold von Siemens (13 November 1853 in Berlin – 29 April 1918 in Berlin) was a German telecommunications industrialist of the Siemens family, one of the successors on his family's company Siemens. Life The eldest son of Werner von Siemens ...

' eldest son Hermann von Siemens. Apart from his business activities, Carl Friedrich von Siemens was engaged in several organisations. In 1919 he fianced the far-right Anti-Bolshevik Fund. From 1920 to 1924 he was member of the Reichstag for the Deutsche Demokratische Partei. From 1924 to 1934 Siemens was chairman of the administrative board of the German State Railways (

Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...

). He died 9 September 1941 in Heinendorf near

Personal life

Married, he was the father of: * Ernst Albrecht von Siemens * Ursula von Siemens (25 August 1906,

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-1980), married on 19 August 1931 in

to Hubert Nikolaus Ernst Gebhard Graf Blücher von Wahlstatt (19 September 1902, Radun - 13 May 1945,

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, in

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), the parents of: ** Nikolaus Gebhard 8.th Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt (born 25 July 1932,

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

), married on 20 April 1955 in Reinscheid to Ursula Gromann (born 4 November 1929, Essen), the parents of: *** Livia Irene Gräfin Blücher von Wahlstatt (born 8 October 1955,

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), unmarried and without any issue *** Lukas Friedrich Gebhard Graf Blücher von Wahlstatt (born 29 May 1956,

), married on 1 September 1996 in

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to Patricia Baronesse von Fircks (born 9 February 1967, Grafing) the parents of **** Carl Philipp Johannes Gebhard Nikolaus (b. Starnberg 26 December 1996) ****Georg (b. Starnberg 2 April 2000) ****Alexandra (b. Starnberg 6 December 2003) ** Irene Gabriele Gräfin Blücher von Wahlstatt (8 August 1934, Guernsey - 8 August 1954, Guernsey), unmarried and without any issue ** Sibylle Magdalene Gräfin Blücher von Wahlstatt (21 May 1937,

- 25 May 1994,

), unmarried and without any issue

References

*Wilfried Feldenkirchen / Eberhard Posner, ''The Siemens Entrepreneurs'', Continuity and Change, 1847–2005, Ten Portraits, Munich, 2005.

External links

Biography on the homepage of the Siemens Corporate Archives
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Siemens, Carl Friedrich Von 1872 births 1941 deaths Siemens German untitled nobility German industrialists Businesspeople from Berlin 20th-century German businesspeople People from the Province of Brandenburg Carl Friedrich Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic People from Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Biography

Personal life

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