Werner von Siemens

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electrical engineer entrepreneur human industrialist inventor

Werner von Siemens was a pioneering 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who founded the electrical engineering company Siemens and made major contributions to telegraphy and electrical technology.

Aliases (2)

Ernst Werner Siemens ×1
Hans Siemens ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	electrical engineer → entrepreneur → human → industrialist → inventor →
awardReceived	Order of Merit for Science and the Arts (Pour le Mérite) → Order of the Red Eagle →
birthName	Ernst Werner Siemens →
burialPlace	Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	pneumonia →
child	Arnold von Siemens →
countryOfCitizenship	Germany → Kingdom of Prussia →
dateOfBirth	1816-12-13 →
dateOfDeath	1892-12-06 →
employer	Prussian Army →
ethnicGroup	German →
familyName	Siemens →
fieldOfWork	electrical engineering → electrical technology → telegraphy →
founded	Siemens & Halske → Siemens AG →
givenName	Werner →
hasHeritage	Prussian →
languageSpoken	German →
memberOf	Prussian Academy of Sciences → Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences →
militaryRank	lieutenant →
name	Werner von Siemens →
namedAfter	Werner-von-Siemens-Ring →
nobleTitle	von →
notableFor	founding the Siemens electrical engineering company → pioneering work in telegraphy and electrical power technology →
notableWork	development of the pointer telegraph → dynamo-electric principle applications → early electric railway experiments → improvements to the telegraph system →
occupation	officer →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of Hanover → Lenthe →
placeOfDeath	Berlin → German Empire →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Carl Heinrich von Siemens → Wilhelm von Siemens →
spouse	Antonie Siemens → Mathilde Drumann →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt → Siemens →	foundedBy
Carl Wilhelm Siemens → Carl Wilhelm Siemens ("Hans Siemens") →	sibling
Werner von Siemens ("Ernst Werner Siemens") →	birthName
Werner von Siemens →	name
Bauakademie, Berlin →	notableAlumnus