Alfred Hugo Heinrich Siepmann (27 June 1899 - 6 February 1974) was a German businessman, industrialist and

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of the Waffen-SS during Nazi Germany. Since 1933, he served as a member of the

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of Arnsberg, initially for the Nazi Party and later for the Christian Democratic Union. He was a member of the supervisory boards of

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and

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. Siepmann was a member of the Siepmann family.

Early life and education

Siepmann was born 27 June 1899 in Warstein, Kingdom of Prussia (presently Germany), the second of three children, to

Hugo Siepmann Richard Hugo Siepmann known as Hugo Siepmann (; May 24, 1868 – October 4, 1950) was a German industrialist and Patronage, patron. He was a member of the Siepmann, Siepmann industrial family, originally hailing from Hagen, Hagen, Germany, known ...

, an industrialist, gentleman farmer and partner in Peters & Co, and Louise Siepmann (

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Lämmerhirt). He was named after his maternal grandfather Alfred Lämmerhirt, his father and paternal grandfather. He was raised in a Evangelical family and attended the local schools in Warstein and

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. During World War I, he served in the German Imperial Army, where he was promoted to Fahnenjunker Unteroffizier. Between 1919 and 1921 he completed his studies in Economics at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Personal life

On 13 June 1928, Siepmann married Jenny Wilkesmann (1906–1959), a daughter of Ewald Wilkesmann and Hanny (

Rautenbach) of Cologne, Germany. The brides grandfather was the founder of the Rautenbach concern (since 2005 part of Nemak) of Solingen and Wernigerode. They had five children. In 1944, he remarried to his former secretary, Annaliese Bobring.

Literature

* Dr Felix Rexhausen; ''Mit dem Blasrohr leben'' In: Der Spiegel, 1965 (in German) * Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel; Siepmann, Alfred In: The German Who is Who?, 1970 (in German)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siepmann, Alfred 1899 births 1974 deaths 20th-century German businesspeople Waffen-SS personnel German Army personnel of World War I Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Dresdner Bank People from Warstein Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians