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10 unusual facts about Siemens & Halske


Carl Heinrich von Siemens

In 1853, Carl Siemens traveled to St. Petersburg where he established the branch office of his brothers company Siemens & Halske.

Ernst von Siemens

After being a deputy member of the Managing Board of Siemens & Halske for five years, he became a full member in 1948 and was appointed chairman in 1949.

Ivano-Frankivsk railway station

The electricity was installed by the German company out of Berlin Siemens & Halske.

Karl Mey

After the merger of AEG, the Auer Company, and Siemens & Halske into Osram AG in Berlin, he supervised the whole research and development branch.

Leopold Koppel

In February 1920, DGA merged its light bulb manufacturing with that of Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and Siemens & Halske and they became limited partners under OSRAM G.m.b.H. KG; the start of the business year was dated retroactively to 1 July 1919.

Marcello Pirani

As head of the scientific-technical bureau, he was in charge of coordinating and pushing scientific work in the field of light bulbs of the three founding companies Siemens & Halske, AEG and the Auergesellschaft.

In 1904, he joins the light bulb factory (Glühlampenwerk) of Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin where he remained for the next fifteen years.

Palais Ludwig Ferdinand

After reconstruction, it was rented in 1949 to Siemens & Halske, a predecessor of Siemens AG, who initially used it for their motor pool and casino business.

Polish Baltic Philharmonic

This urban power station was built between 1897-1898 by the Berlin firm of Siemens & Halske, with further expansion continuing through 1913.

Werner von Bolton

Post-Graduation, von Bolton worked at the company Siemens & Halske in Berlin.


Caridina dennerli

A pH of 7.4 and a conductivity of 224 μS/cm) have been recorded.

Schöneweide–Spindlersfeld branch line

Parallel with the trials on the Spindlersfeld line, tests were carried out by AEG and Siemens & Halske, under a joint venture called Studiengesellschaft für Elektrische Schnellbahnen, with AC on the Royal Prussian Military Railway (Königlich Preußische Militär-Eisenbahn) between Marienfelde and Zossen.