Friedrich Siemens


Friedrich August Siemens 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 and his wife Eleonore Henriette Deichmann. His parents died when Siemens was young, and he grew up with an uncle.
Siemens married Elise Witthauer. The couple had six children: Walter, Lisbet, Marie, Friedrich Carl Siemens, Werner Ferdinand Siemens, and Wilhelm Otto.
In his younger years, Siemens came to England. There he worked for the company of his brother Werner von Siemens. In 1856, 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

  • Karl Burhenne: Siemens. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 203–228.
  • August Roth: Friedrich August Siemens. in: Siemens magazine, Volume 6, Issue 12, pp. 581–590
  • Wilhelm Rothert: General Hannoversche Biography, Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, pp. 445–462
  • Frank Wittendorfer: Siemens, Friedrich August. In: New German Biography . Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010,, p. 374 f..