Alfred Siepmann


Alfred Hugo Heinrich Siepmann was a German businessman, industrialist and military officer of the Waffen-SS during Nazi Germany. Since 1933, he served as a member of the Kreistag of Arnsberg, initially for the Nazi Party and later for the Christian [Democratic Union of Germany|Christian Democratic Union]. He was a member of the supervisory boards of Gerling-Konzern and Dresdner Bank. Siepmann was a member of the Siepmann family.

Early life and education

Siepmann was born 27 June 1899 in Warstein, Kingdom of Prussia, the second of three children, to Hugo Siepmann, an industrialist, gentleman farmer and partner in Peters & Co, and Louise Siepmann, into an Evangelical family.
He was baptized after his maternal grandfather Alfred Lämmerhirt, his father and paternal grandfather. He spent his youth attending schools in Warstein and Lippstadt. His father was a devoted pomologist and retained a leased-out farm in the countryside where he spent part of his youth.
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, a daughter of Ewald Wilkesmann and Hanny of Cologne, Germany. The brides grandfather was the founder of the Rautenbach concern of Solingen and Wernigerode. They had five children. In 1944, he remarried to his former secretary, Annaliese Bobring.

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