Carl Heinrich von Siemens

Carl Heinrich von Siemens, often called simply Carl von Siemens, was a German entrepreneur born on 3 March 1829 in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg, one of fourteen children of a tenant farmer of the old Siemens family of Goslar. He was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and William Siemens. In 1853 he went to St. Petersburg to establish the branch office of his brothers company Siemens and Halske, which held a contract to build the Russian telegraph network. He moved to Britain in 1869 to assist William, returned to Russia in the 1880s, and after the death of Werner in 1892 became senior chief executive of Siemens and Halske, resigning in 1904. Tsar Nicholas II ennobled him in 1895 for his service to Russia. He died in Menton, France, on 21 March 1906.