Werner Von Siemens (181692) is best known in the English-speaking world as an inventor and pioneering electrical engineer. While previous studies have concentrated on his work as a scientist and technician, this biography, the first in a three-volume history of the Siemens corporation, focuses on his life as a businessman. Siemens was not only a successful inventor but also an entrepreneur with a broad and international business vision. Siemens first achieved success in telegraphy. His firm, Siemens & Halske, built Germany's first important telegraph line and went on to build elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Siemens then turned his hand to electric technology. He was instrumental in creating the conditions for the advancement of electrical technology from the experimental stage into the modern electrical industry. Siemens combined his engineering brilliance with entrepreneurial skills to develop a business whose activities at an early stage nearly spanned the globe. Siemens held a multinational vision almost from the start. The Siemens firms were unique in that, rather than starting small then slowly growing and branching out, they were from their inception international organizations. The story of Siemens is a vital part of the history of industrialization in Europe.

Werner Von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series)

FELDENKIRCHEN, WILFRIED

Ohio State Univ Pr

WERNER VON SIEMENS: INVENTOR AND INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEUR (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Ohio State University Press

Wilfried Feldenkirchen continues the examination of the House of Siemens that he started in his previous work, Werner yon Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur. This new volume covers the period from the end of World War I to the end of World War II.Even before World War I, the House of Siemens was one of the largest and most important German industrial enterprises in terms of total assets, sales, and the size of its labor force. Consisting of two parent companies, Siemens & Halske and Siemens-Schuckertwerke (plus a host of subsidiaries and affiliated companies), the Siemens corporation successfully developed into a multinational concern that spanned the field of electrical engineering. In 1913 the company posted total sales of 410 million marks and employed a labor force of 82,000, a quarter of which worked abroad.Drawing on previously inaccessible and unpublished sources, Feldenkirchen analyzes Siemens's policy decisions within the context of the German economy as a whole. He begins with the economic situation following World War I, a period characterized by cyclical movements of high inflation. The examination of the company continues throughout the subsequent so-called Weimar boom, the Great Depression, the period of economic recovery under National Socialist rule, and finally, World War II. Feldenkirchen also probes Siemens's involvement in the National Socialists' war-time economy and discusses the issues of rearmament and forced labor.

SIEMENS 1918 1945 (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS)

Business & Money

Economics

Wilfried Feldenkirchen continues the examination of the House of Siemens that he started in his previous work Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur. This new volume covers the period during the two world wars. Even before World War I, the House of Siemens was one of the largest and most important German industrial enterprises in terms of total assets, sales, and the size of its labor force. Consisting of two parent companies, Siemens & Halske and Siemens-Schuckertwerke (plus a host of subsidiaries and affiliated companies), the Siemens corporation successfully developed into a multinational concern that spanned the field of electrical engineering. In 1913 the company posted total sales of 410 million marks and employed a labor force of 82,000, a quarter of which worked abroad. Taking as his point of departure the situation following World War I, Feldenkirchen describes the cyclical movements that characterized the period of high inflation, the subsequent so-called Weimar boom, the Great Depression, the period of economic recovery under National Socialist rule, and World War II. Drawing on a wide range of previously inaccessible and unpublished sources, Feldenkirchen analyzes the company's actions and reactions in a period in which its success was determined extensively by outside influences. This book makes an important contribution to an assessment of the company's role in this period of history and at the same time provides important insight into the social and economic history of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Wilfried Feldenkirchen is professor of business history at Friedrich Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His doctoral thesis, "The Iron and Steel Industry in the Ruhr District," earned him the Maier-Leibnitz Prize, awarded by Germany's Federal Minister for Science and Research, and he received the Harvard School of Business's Newcomer Prize in 1988.

Siemens, 1918–1945 (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS)

Biography & History

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Die deutsche Wirtschaft im 20. Jahrhundert (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, 47) (German Edition)

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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