Friedrich Siemens industrial furnace construction

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Logo of Friedrich Siemens Industrieofenbau GmbH from 1956

The company Friedrich Siemens Industrieofenbau was founded in Berlin in 1856 by Friedrich Siemens , a brother of Werner Siemens (from 1888 by Siemens).

In 1857 Friedrich Siemens built the first furnace for his brother Carl Wilhelm Siemens in London. In 1867 the company moved to Dresden. The company mainly built ovens for the glass industry , but some of them were also modified for crematoria .

In 1904 his eldest son Friedrich Carl Siemens took over the furnace construction company and relocated the company headquarters back to Berlin.

From 1910 to 1920, rolling mill furnaces were constructed that could use blast furnace gas. This design has been patented as a regenerative pusher furnace under No. 226121. About 100 such furnaces were built by the Friedrich Siemens company. From 1922 to 1923, the company built a new house in Düsseldorf as a sales and construction office. On November 22, 1943, the Berlin office was destroyed by bombs. Just a few weeks later, Friedrich Siemens KG resumed business in Potsdam .

In 1945 the grandson of Friedrich Siemens, Andreas Siemens, fell in World War II. It was therefore unclear who should continue to run the company. In 1946 the design office was relocated to Berlin. Between 1946 and 1949 the company built multi-zone pusher furnaces , round deep furnaces , gas generators and glass melting furnaces for plants in Germany, Yugoslavia and Hungary with the approval of the occupation authorities . In 1952 Friedrich Carl Siemens died.

In 1955 the company was converted into a GmbH and the company headquarters relocated to Düsseldorf. In December 1956, the management of Friedrich Siemens Industrieofenbau GmbH consisted of W. von Johnston and K. Lühr.

Individual evidence

  1. Sebastian Groth : Ashes to Ashes - The story of cremation . In: Fachzeitschrift Bestattung , issue 01–05 / 2008.