Carl Friedrich von Siemens

Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872 to 1941) was a German industrialist and politician from the Siemens family, the youngest son of Werner von Siemens by his second wife, Antonie Siemens. Born in Berlin, he joined the family firm Siemens & Halske in 1899. Between 1901 and 1908 he directed the British branch Siemens Brothers in London and the Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works in Stafford, and from 1908 to 1912 he built and led the department responsible for the company's activities abroad. In 1912 he became chief executive of Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin, and in 1919 chairman of the supervisory board of both Siemens-Schuckertwerke and Siemens & Halske, a position from which he is credited with rebuilding the Siemens group after the First World War. Outside the company he financed an anti-Bolshevik fund in 1919, sat in the Reichstag for the German Democratic Party from 1920 to 1924, and chaired the administrative board of the German State Railways from 1924 to 1934. He died in 1941 near Potsdam and was succeeded in both chairmanships by his nephew Hermann von Siemens.