Georg Wilhelm von Siemens

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Georg Wilhelm Siemens , 1888 Siemens (* thirtieth July 1855 in Berlin , † 14. October 1919 in Arosa , Canton Grisons , Switzerland ) was a German industrialist , landowner and royal Prussian Privy Councilor of the Siemens family .

Wilhelm von Siemens

Life

Wilhelm Siemens came from the old Goslar city ​​family Siemens (mentioned in a document in 1384) and was the son of the inventor and entrepreneur Werner von Siemens (1816–1892) and his first wife Mathilde Drumann (1824–1865) from Königsberg (Prussia) . The father Werner Siemens and his descendants were raised to the Prussian nobility on May 5, 1888 in Charlottenburg .

His brother and co-owner of Siemens & Halske AG was Arnold von Siemens (1853–1918).

Memorial plaque in Wilhelm-von-Siemens-Park in Berlin-Spandau
Grave tablet of Wilhelm and Elly von Siemens

After preschool and attending the Luisenstädtisches Gymnasium, Siemens retrained to the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg in 1869. For health reasons he had to move to a lyceum in Strasbourg in Alsace in 1872 . The following year he went on a recreational and educational trip to Italy . Wilhelm Siemens performed his military service as a one-year volunteer in Stuttgart from 1875–1877 . In 1876 he began studying mathematics and natural sciences at the universities of Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin , and it lasted until 1879.

Wilhelm Siemens had worked for his father's company Siemens & Halske since 1880 , and from 1884 as co-owner. In 1888 Werner Siemens was because of his services by Emperor Friedrich III. raised to the Prussian hereditary nobility. In the same year, Wilhelm von Siemens and his family moved into the villa in Park Biesdorf. Werner von Siemens transferred the estate, the villa ( Schloss Biesdorf ) and the Biesdorf Park to his son Wilhelm in 1889. After Werner von Siemens handed over management of the company to his brother Carl Siemens (1829–1906) and his sons Arnold and Wilhelm in 1890 , Wilhelm was the leading figure in the company. Under his leadership, the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1897 .

In addition, Siemens managed what was then Siemens-Schuckertwerke GmbH, which u. a. in Biesdorf near Berlin (now a district of Berlin) built airships in an inflexible construction. In some cases he took part in test drives of the Siemens Schuckert airship SSL1 and SSL2 himself . The first journey of the SSL1 via Biesdorf took place in 1911. In 1917 Siemens joined the German Fatherland Party .

In 1898, Wilhelm von Siemens, church patron of the Protestant church in Biesdorf, donated an organ and electrical lighting for the renovation of the church. In 1904 he was appointed a secret councilor. Wilhelm von Siemens died in Arosa (Switzerland) in 1919 during his stay at the spa.

family

Siemens married on June 21, 1882 Good Piontken ( East Prussia ) his cousin Eleanor (gen Elly.) Siemens (born March 2, 1860 Good Piontken; † 26 July 1919 in Charlottenburg ), the daughter of the landowner Ferdinand Siemens , Laird to Piontken, and the Eulalia Hertzog . The last resting place of the couple is in the family grave of the Siemens family on the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf in the Trinitatis block, field 3a. The grave site is decorated with a grave relief, created by Hermann Fuchs. The marriage resulted in two children: the son Werner Ferdinand was born in 1885, the daughter Mathilde Eulalie in 1888.

Honors

  • 1905: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden (Dr.-Ing.eh)
  • July 30, 1915: Honorary doctorate from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (Dr. phil.hc)

Fonts

  • The freedom of the seas . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1917.
  • Belgium and the disarmament question . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1918 (= Der Tag . No. 276/78, 1917).

literature

  • August Rotth: Wilhelm von Siemens. A picture of life. Commemorative sheets for the 75th anniversary of Siemens & Halske. Berlin / Leipzig 1922.
  • Herbert Goetzeler, Lothar Schoen: Wilhelm and Carl Friedrich von Siemens. The second generation of entrepreneurs. (Ed. by Wilhelm Treue and Hans Pohl on behalf of the Society for Company History) Stuttgart 1986.
  • Wilhelm von Siemens. - in: Wilfried Feldenkirchen / Eberhard Posner: The Siemens entrepreneurs. Continuity and change 1847–2005. Ten portraits. Munich 2004, pp. 60–85.
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses B Volume XIII. Page 388, Volume 73 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1980, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Sabine Dittler:  Siemens, Georg Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 376 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bodo von Dewitz : Werner von Siemens. His life, his work and his family. Life's work in pictures. His life, work and family. His life's work in picture. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944033-39-6 , pp. 290-349.

Web links

Commons : Georg Wilhelm von Siemens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Ulrich Wehler: German history of society . CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-32264-8 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2017]).
  2. ^ Ferdinand Siemens (1820–1893) was a younger brother of Werner von Siemens. He was a farmer and was engaged to Sophie Drumann in 1850, a daughter of his cousin Sophie Mehliss and the Königsberg historian Wilhelm Drumann , who died of consumption in 1851. With the help of Professor Drumann, he had acquired the Piontken estate in East Prussia in 1850. Sophie Drumann's younger sister Mathilde married Werner Siemens in 1852 and gave birth to Wilhelm in 1855. In 1865 she also died of tuberculosis. (Cf. Werner von Siemens: Memorabilia. P. 118 at Zeno.org .)
personal data
SURNAME Siemens, Georg Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siemens, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1919
Place of death Arosa , Switzerland