See also: Siemens

Siemens AG is a German group of equipment electronic S and electrotechnical S. the group has a long story, since it was founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens. The group, whose seat is with Munich, is the first private employer of Germany.

History

Before the Second world war

In 1847 Werner von Siemens revolutionizes the Télégraphie in a small workshop of Berlin. October 1st 1847, on the basis of this invention, it founds the company Telegraphen-Beam-Anstalt of Siemens & Halske and settles in its first workshop on October 12th.

In 1848, Siemens builds the first line of telegraph with long distance in Europe, extending on 500 km from Berlin to Francfort-sur-le-Main. In 1850 the young brother, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, opens a representative office to London. In the years 1850, the company takes part in the construction of a network of telegraph with long distance in Russia. In 1855, a branch of the company opens with Saint-Pétersbourg, directed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens.

In 1881, a Alternator with Alternative course Siemens, driven by a water turbine, is used to feed the first urban lighting with Godalming, the United Kingdom. The company continues to grow and diversifies in the electric trains and the electric bulbs.

In 1890, the founder withdraws and leaves the reins of the company to his/her Carl brother and his children Arnold and Wilhelm.

During the Second world war

Same manner as a very great number of companies such as BMW, Thyssen, Daimler-Benz, Krupp, IG Farben, Siemens exploited labor drawn among the deportees. The prisoners were used until total exhaustion within the framework of the Nazi project of “the extermination by work”. When they did not work rather quickly, and thus did not produce sufficiently, the deportees were coiled of blow by the S and the Kapos, often until dead follows.

The prisoners were voluntarily maintained in bad health by very thin meals. The epidemics (typhus, dysentery) were frequent.

After the Second world war

January 28th, 1972, Siemens creates the consortium Unidata, project Européen intended to allow in the Années 1970 the emergence of an big industry European Informatique for identical of Airbus in the Aéronautique. Competences of the three participants were developed: the International Compagnie for Data processing (CII) received the control of work the architecture of the machines and the Logiciel, electronic technology returned to Philips, and Siemens took care of the mechanical peripherals. Valery Giscard d'Estaing elected president in 1974 put an end to the project in 1975: the France denounced unilaterally the agreement Unidata and CII amalgamated with Honeywell-Bull. Philips returned never again in data processing and Siemens joined Fujitsu to become one of the large world manufacturers.

In October 1998 in the United States, a group of survivors of the holocaust brings an legal action against German companies famous for their participation in the exactions during the Nazi regime. September 24th, 1998, BBC News defers that Siemens launched a vast collection of funds in compensation to the survivors of the Shoah. Little time after, Volkswagen, which was also continued, announced the creation of a similar system.

June 18th, 2006, Nokia and Siemens announce the fusion of their activities of telecommunications, thus giving rise to a world giant: Nokia Siemens Networks. The company counts currently more than 400.000 paid.

Fields

• Material Automation

• Telecommunication S
• railway
• Locomotive S
• Subway S (of which the system VALLEY)
• motorized Oars (Desiro)
• Security system
• Elements for Automobile industry
• Household
• Lighting (Osram)
• Data-processing with Fujitsu Audio-visual Siemens IT Solutions and medical Services
• Equipment
• Audioprothèse
• Equipment of diagnosis (scanner IRM)
• Equipment of Semiconductor treatment
• S
• Powerplants
• Nuclear plant, participation of 34% in Areva NP
• Analysis of materials by X-rays (Diffractometry of x-rays, Spectrometry of x-ray fluorescence): the activity was filialisée in 1996 (AXS GMBH), then sold with Bruker to become Bruker AXS.
• Electrical equipment
• Metallurgy

Management of the firm

• 1847-1890: Werner von Siemens
• 1890-1919: Wilhelm von Siemens
• 1919-1941: Carl Friedrich von Siemens
• 1941-1956: Hermann von Siemens
• 1956-1968: Ernst von Siemens
• 1968-1971: Gerd Tacke
• 1971-1981 : Bernhard Plettner
• 1981-1992 : Karlheinz Kaske
• 1992-2005 : Heinrich von Pierer
• 2005-2007 : Klaus Kleinfeld
• 2007 -: Peter Löscher

Directory

• Peter Löscher, president of the directory
• Klaus Kleinfeld
• Johannes Feldmayer
• Thomas Ganswindt
• Joe Kaeser
• Edward G. Krubasik
• Rudi Lamprecht
• Eduardo Assemble
• Jürgen Radomski
• Erich R. Reinhardt
• Hermann Requardt
• Uriel J. Sharef
• Claus Weyrich
• Klaus Wucherer

Financial data

Stock exchange data

• Shares quoted with the Stock Exchange Frankfurt
• Member of the index
• Code Value ISIN =
• Face value = euro

Principal shareholders

• Siemens-Belegschaftsaktionäre 9%
• Siemens 6,5%
• Von Siemens-Vermögensverwaltung Gesellschaft put Beschränkter Haftung 5%
• Allianz Aktiengesellschaft 3%
• Münchner Rück (Munich Re) 1%

See too

References

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