his death. He was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, the National Press Club and the American Society of Newspaper Editors—United Press.
Carl Friedrich von Siemens Berlin, July 11, The death of Herr Carl Friedrich von Siemens, chief of the Siemens Works, at the age of 68, was an-firm, Werner von Carl Friedrich von Siem his name a household word throughout the world wherever electric motors, dynamos, cables, and electro-technicad goods are in use.
He inherited his father's business and developed it into one of the Biggest industrial concerns in Germany, inviting comparison with Krupp itself, at the same creating for his factories and workmen an entire city, called- Slemensstadt.
"Von Siemens was born-in Berlin-Charlottenburg on September 5, 1872, Json of Werner von Siemens, founder of the Siemens-Halske Works, After the usual school training he studied in Berlin, Strasburg and Munich, [spent two years in America, London Fars, and then joined his father's From 1901-108 he was again in London as head of the "High Power" Gepartment of the company, and.then returned to Berlin to take over the [Overseas Department, Finally in 1912 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sie-
/mens-Schuekert "Company.
At the beginning of the Great War von Siemens served on the Western only a vast industrial.town, but also is. surrounded.by a chain of workmen's settlements built in the form garden cities. In this, of old employees and rkmen, von Siemens followed out his fathr's ideas, Besides being a leading captain of industry, von Ser fo. made incursions'in polities, In 1020, he was elected a member of the Reichstag on. the democratic list, put reline quished his seat in 1924 when he be-Jeame Chairman of the German, Raflway Company.
He was a recognized authority on economic questions of national and international significance and he was called to sit on the board of directors, not only of industrial undertakings but also of banks, including the Reichsbank, Although himself a large.scale Andustrialist, von Siemens. always. depreciated the swamping of individual-and inltiaulve by modern collec. vist tendencies, He was never tired emphasizing the importance of developing the sense of public respon sibility and offering the fullest scope for talent, and frequently uttered a warning against, supposing that these qualities can be supplanted by big-scale organization, He always put the human being before the machine.
Von Siemens was highly esteemed by Adolf Hitter, "and the Fuhrer chose Slemensstadt as the place from, which to deliver his big. broadcast appeal to the workers of Germar the eve of the'10%3 referendum on, Germany's departure from the Les-gue of Natlons—Reuter, Front, but was recalled by the Govermént to reorganize his works into plants for the production of war-material. On the death of his brother in 1919 he became chairman of Siemens Halske, Under Carl Friedrich von Slemen's management the Siemens works went from one triumph to another in the application of electricity to the solution of the problems of modern life the home, on the farm, in the factory, for radio purposes, for high-peed transport, and in' countless other Melds of present-day activity.
Vast Town His creation, Siemensstadt, on the northeastern Border of Berlin, is not
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