Friedrich Siemens

Portrait of Friedrich Siemens (1826-1904), Inventor and Engineer

Friedrich August Siemens (born 8 December 1826 in Menzendorf; died 24 May 1904 in Dresden) was a German entrepreneur from the Siemens family and a brother of Werner von Siemens.

Biography

Friedrich Siemens was the eleventh child of Christian Ferdinand Siemens (1787–1840) and his wife Eleonore Henriette Deichmann (1792–1839). His parents died at an early age, and Friedrich grew up with an uncle.

Friedrich Siemens married Elise Witthauer. The couple had six children: Walter (December 21, 1864; † January 19, 1883), Lisbet (March 4, 1866; † April 24, 1947 in Dresden), Marie (October 29, 1868; † March 16, 1875), Friedrich Carl Siemens (January 6, 1877; † June 25, 1952), Werner Ferdinand Siemens (September 29, 1880; † September 25, 1915), and Wilhelm (Willi) Otto (August 7, 1882; † December 21, 1945 in Dresden).

In young years Siemens came to England. There he worked for the company of his brother Werner von Siemens. In 1856, Friedrich Siemens established his own company Friedrich Siemens Industrieofenbau in Dresden.

Siemens died in Dresden in 1904. His grave is located in the New Annenfriedhof in Dresden-Löbtau. The grave figure was created by the sculptor Johannes Schilling.

Literature

Grave of Friedrich Siemens

• Karl Burhenne: Siemens. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 203–228. (Family article - see p. 219)
• August Roth: Friedrich August Siemens. in: Siemens magazine, Volume 6, Issue 12 (December 1926), pp. 581–590
• Wilhelm Rothert: General Hannoversche Biography, Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, pp. 445–462 (Werner von Siemens and his brothers)
• Frank Wittendorfer: Siemens, Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0, p. 374 f. (Digitized version).

See also

• Siemens family