The German entrepreneur founded his electrical engineering and innovation worldwide Siemens group. Most of his inventions were incorporated into everyday life. Were among his first inventions e.g. the pointer telegraph and electric dynamo engine. 1874 Werner von Siemens joined Ireland with America through an Atlantic submarine cable. In view of the fact that 1879 he built the first dynamo in series. Thus started the era of electric power technology. 1881 in Berlin Siemens constructed the first electric railway in the world. Above all in the social sector of Siemens introduced social policies such as the nine-hour day, which led the way …
Ernst Werner Siemens was the eldest son of a tenant farmer on 13 December 1816 in Lenthe, near Hanover, was born.
The family of Ernst Werner Siemens went for economic reasons in 1823 in Lübeck. Siemens received private lessons and later attended high school in Luebeck. The school he dropped out prematurely. In 1834 he left Berlin and went to Lübeck. There he became an officer cadet in the artillery of the Prussian army. Siemens was given the opportunity, three years at the Berlin engineer and artillery school arithmetic, chemistry, physics and ballistics study. In 1838 he became lieutenant. The following year, 1839, his mother died and another year to his father. Until 1849 he remained in the military.
In 1842, the final go to Berlin. Werner Siemens has been active in the field of telegraphy and earned so his money for the upkeep of his younger siblings. 1846 Siemens invented the pointer telegraph. He then called in the following year together with the university mechanic JG Halske Company “Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company” to life. This company provided the foundation for future global company Siemens. In the revolutionary year 1848, Siemens was awarded the public contract, the telegraph line from Berlin to Frankfurt with his equip pointer telegraph.
In 1853 he worked for the Russian government, for which he renewed the telegraph line in the Tsarist empire. In 1855 he founded a branch in St. Petersburg. The order situation there developed very positively, so that Siemens pleased with these business profits, the domestic economic crisis was over. During this time he invented instruments, relays and other technological achievements. Siemens has developed a process for laying deep sea cables, which he commissioned in 1857 by the British Government tried. The following year, 1858, he founded a branch in London, which was led by his brother William Siemens.
He also opened a plant in wool weights for the production of cables. In the period 1862 to 1866, Siemens was the Progressive Party member of the Prussian Landtag. In this role he developed the international market for products from Germany. In 1866 he learned the dynamo-electric opinion, which turned out to be both technically and economically as a significant discovery. Ernst Werner Siemens built the first dynamo, and then started 1879 with the production. Thus started the era of electric power technology. 1868, work started on the 11,000-kilometer telegraph line between London, Tehran and Calcutta. With about twelve years of construction work was completed.
From 1867, Siemens, the company continued alone, his partner Halske had alighted. Among the awards from Siemens contain an honorary doctorate, which he was plotted in 1860 by the University of Berlin. In 1873 he was admitted to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. 1888 Kaiser Wilhelm I brought him to the peerage, which is why he called himself Werner von Siemens. 1874 Association of Siemens Ireland with America through an Atlantic submarine cable. His proposals led to the 1877 adoption of the first German patent law. The following year he invented the electric street lighting.
In 1879 Siemens developed the first electric railway in the world and open them in the same year at the Berlin trade show to the public. Two years later he built the first electric railway in the world in Berlin, which was place into operation. 1880 was the co-founder of Siemens’ Electrical Engineering Association “, now known as VDE – Association of German Electrical Engineers. In 1887 he contributed to the founding of the Physical-Technological Institute. Werner von Siemens devoted his life’s work of the extensive scientific foundation of electrical engineering. To 1890 was one of the Siemens Group 6,000 employees.
He also pushed for the technological development of everyday life and for the promotion of the economy. As an entrepreneur, he was just corporate social responsibility. For example, he founded the “Siemens Pension Fund” for retirement of its employees. Above all in the social sector, Siemens introduced social policies such as the nine-hour day, which were groundbreaking. He wanted to bind its employees to the company.
Werner von Siemens died on 6 December 1892 in Berlin.
