Arnold von Siemens (13 November 1853 in Berlin – 29 April 1918 in Berlin) was a German

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of the

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, one of the successors on his family's company Siemens.

Life

The eldest 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 fo ...

, inventor and founder of the ''Siemens & Halske'' electrical company, and his first wife (and cousin second times removed) Mathilde Drumann, took over the Vienna sales representation of his father's company in 1879 and established a production factory there in 1883. In 1887 he opened the company's first office in Japan.Siemens websit
August 1, 2012 – 125 Years Siemens in Japan (1887–2012)
Retrieved on August 12, 2013 In 1892 he founded a factory for electrical

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s in Chicago, in order to challenge

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's market leadership in the US. The factory however burnt down completely in August 1894. When his father retired in 1890, Arnold succeeded him as CEO. Siemens & Halske (S & H) was incorporated in 1897, with Arnold's uncle

Carl Heinrich von Siemens Carl Heinrich von Siemens (often just Carl von Siemens) (3 March 1829 – 21 March 1906) was a German entrepreneur. He was born in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg, one of the fourteen children of a tenant farmer of the Siemens family, an old family of G ...

as its first chairman of the

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. Arnold succeeded him as chairman of the board from 1904 until his death in 1918. His brother

Georg Wilhelm von Siemens Georg Wilhelm von Siemens (30 July 1855, Berlin – 14 October 1919, Arosa, Switzerland) was a German telecommunications industrialist of the Siemens family. Known as Wilhelm von Siemens, he was the second son of Werner von Siemens by first w ...

, until then chairman of the board of a sister company,

Siemens-Schuckert 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 & H ...

werke AG, succeeded him as chairman of Siemens & Halske AG. Arnold married Ellen von Helmholtz, a daughter of his father's close friend

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, and they became parents of five children, the eldest being

Hermann von Siemens Hermann von Siemens (9 August 1885 in Berlin – 13 October 1986 in Munich) was a German industrialist of the Siemens family. Life He was the eldest son of Arnold von Siemens who himself was the eldest son of Werner von Siemens, the famous inve ...

, later himself chairman.

References

1853 births 1918 deaths Businesspeople from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg Members of the Prussian House of Lords Arnold People from Steglitz-Zehlendorf {{Germany-business-bio-stub