One of his top priorities was the financing of international railway projects, including the Northern Pacific, and the Baghdad Railway.
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Georg von Siemens is a nephew of the inventors and industrialists Werner, William, and Carl von Siemens.
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The economists Ludwig Bamberger and Georg von Siemens, as well as the social liberal politician Eugen Richter were among the prime movers of the fusion, in the view of the coming accession of considered "liberal" Crown Prince Frederick William to the throne (which took place only in 1888).