- Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld (born November 6 1957 in Bremen, Germany) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens AG from 2005 till July 2007. On April 25, 2007, Siemens AG distributed a press release announcing that the supervisory board was not planning to renew Kleinfeld's contract, due to United States authorities' ongoing investigations of the Siemens corruption scandal. Displeased by this decision, Kleinfeld announced that he would leave his position by September 30, 2007.
- Peter Löscher
Peter Löscher is an Austrian manager and President, Global Human Health at global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Siemens AG on May 20 2007 as the successor of Klaus Kleinfeld, and will take on the new position effective July 1, 2007.
- Heinrich von Pierer
Von Pierer had been long refused to step down as supervisory board chief, even when the current corruption scandal snowballed. He has refused his involvement in any personal wrongdoing. He conveyed the group's annual meeting in January of his 'deep distress' that his efforts to make certain full compliance with corporate government codes had visibly failed.
- Joe Kaeser
Joe Kaeser Chief Financial Officer, Siemens AG, Munich since May 1, 2006. He was born in Arnbruck, Germany, on June 23 1957. Following his studies in business administration, he joined the Components Group at Siemens in 1980. Kaeser subsequently held various business administration management positions, including a term at the Siemens Components Operations in Malacca, Malaysia (1987-1988).
- Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (born in Lavia, Finland on July 13, 1953) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Corporation and Chairman of Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG.
- Carl Friedrich von Siemens
Carl Friedrich von Siemens was a German Entrepreneur and politician. Carl Friedrich is the youngest son of Werner von Siemens by his second wife and relative Antonie Siemens and nephew of Carl Siemens and William Siemens. In 1899, Carl Friedrich von Siemens joined the Siemens & Halske AG which has been found by his father and was then led by his elder brothers (today Siemens AG).
- Peter von Siemens
Peter von Siemens was a German industrialist. He was the grandson of Werner von Siemens. He was chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG from 1971 to 1981. During his tenure, the company became the fifth largest electrical firm in the world. Married to Julia Lienau, they were the parents of: * Katharina von Siemens (born December 24 1938, Berlin), married on June 24 1959 in Geiselgasteig, near Munich, …
- Bernhard Plettner
Dr. Ing. e.h. Bernhard Plettner was a German engineer and manager. From 1971 to 1981 he was CEO of Siemens AG. Plettner studied electrical engineering in Darmstadt. After an internship in 1937 he returned to Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin in 1940. After World War II Plettner was especially engaged in restoring the export relations of the firm. Plettner became member of the board of directors of "Siemens-Schuckertwerke" in 1959 and CEO of this company in 1962.
- Hermann von Siemens
Hermann von Siemens (August 9, 1885-October 13, 1986) was a German industrialist who became head of the German electrical and electronics company Siemens AG in 1941 and served until 1956. He was the son of Arnold von Siemens and wife Ellen von Helmholtz and paternal grandson of Ernst Werner von Siemens and first wife Mathilde Duman. He died at the age of 101. He was also the grandfather of Henrik von Siemens and the great grandfather of Sophia and Philippa von Siemens.
- Karlheinz Kaske
Karlheinz Kaske was a German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992. Kaske studied Physics at RWTH Aachen and joined Siemens in 1950, when he became an engineer in the Siemens factory at Karlsruhe. Later he was a lecturer for electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen and he continued academic teaching during his following years in Siemens’ development department.
- Erwin Müller
Erwin Wilhelm Müller or Erwin Wilhelm Mueller was a German-born physicist who invented the field emission microscope, the field ion microscope, and the atom probe. He was the first person to experimentally observe atoms. Müller studied at the Technical University in Berlin, under Gustav Hertz. He received his degree in engineering in 1935 and his doctorate in 1936.
- John Rabe
John Rabe (November 23, 1882 - January 5, 1949) was a German businessman whose Nanjing Safety Zone sheltered some 200,000 Chinese from slaughter during the Nanjing Massacre. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Rabe pursued a career in business and went to Africa for several years. In 1908 he left for China, and between 1910 and 1938, he worked for the Siemens AG China Corporation in Shenyang, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and later Nanjing.
- Rudolf Hell
Rudolf Hell was a German inventor. He was born in Eggmühl, Bavaria, Germany. From 1919 to 1923 he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom he operated a television station at the "Verkehrsausstellung" (lit.: Traffic exhibition) in Munich in 1925. In the same year Hell invented an apparatus called the "Hellschreiber", an early forerunner to the fax.
- Lars Magnus Ericsson
Lars Magnus Ericsson was a Swedish inventor and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as "Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson"). Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog, Värmland and grew up in the small village of Vegerbol, between Karlstad and Arvika. At the age of twelve his father died, and he had to start working as a miner. He worked until he had money enough to leave the village and move to Stockholm in 1867.
- Willi Kalender
Prof Dr Willi A. Kalender is a medical physicist credited with the invention and development of spiral scan computed tomography. He received his Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA in 1979 and in 1988 he completed his Habilitation in Medical Physics at the University of Tübingen. During the period 1979 to 1995 he worked in the research laboratories of Siemens Medical Systems in Erlangen, Germany, …
- Gerhard Schulmeyer
Gerhard Hans Schulmeyer, born in 1938, is a German American businessman. From 1994 until 1998, he was president and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Nixdorf in Germany, and between 1999 and December 2001, he was president and CEO of Siemens Corporation in the United States. Since January 2002 he has been Professor of Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves on the board of directors of Alcan Inc., Zurich Financial Services, and Korn/Ferry International.
- Alan Wood
Alan Wood was born (on March 20 1947) and brought up in Sheffield where he was educated at King Edward VII School (photo). In 1965 he won an Open Scholarship to Manchester University and graduated in 1968 with a First Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He began his career as an Engineering Management Trainee with Unilever on Merseyside.
- Ulrich Cartellieri
Dr. Ulrich Cartellieri is a German businessman, currently a non-executive director of BAE Systems, a member of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. On 2004-10-28 Cartellieri resigned from the board of Deutsche Bank because he could "no longer support" the leadership of CEO Josef Ackermann. He has also served on the boards of Karstadt AG (Chairman), …
- Rainer Hertrich
Rainer Hertrich is one of the two current CEOs of EADS, and also head of the group's Aeronautics Division. He was born December 6th 1949 and studied business administration at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Nuremberg after an apprenticeship at Siemens. He began his career in 1977 as Controlling Supervisor at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB).
- Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
Georg Wilhelm von Siemens (July 30, 1855, Berlin - October 14, 1919, Arosa, Switzerland) was a German telecommunications industrialist. Known as Wilhelm von Siemens, he was the son of Werner von Siemens by first wife Mathilde Duman and was a general partner of Siemens AG. Married in 1882 to Elly ..., and were the parents of: * Wilhelm Ferdinand von Siemens (born 1885) * Mathilde Eleonore Eveline von Siemens (born 1888)
- Rio Reiser
Rio Reiser, was a German rock musician and singer of the famous rock group Ton Steine Scherben. He was born Ralph Christian Möbius in Berlin and died at the age of 46 in the little German town of Fresenhagen. Rio Reiser was politically active during his whole life. In the early 70ies he participated in the squatter scene, for which he wrote the famous "Rauchhaussong".
- Martin van Pernis
Martin van Pernis (born 1945) is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as the chairman of the Siemens department in the Netherlands. He is also a member of the board of the VNO-NCW as well as ad interim chairman of the FME/CWM. As a member of the board of directors at Feyenoord he is responsible for the Human Resource Management.
- Jerry Speyer
Mr. Speyer was one of the two founding partners of Tishman Speyer Properties (TSP), and has been President and CEO since TSP's formation in 1978. Prior to 1978, Mr. Speyer was a Senior Vice President and Director of Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc. An active advocate on behalf of New York City, Mr. Speyer has headed many community, business and cultural organizations.
- Anders Björgerd
Anders Björgerd was deputy CEO of Sweden's largest publicly listed utility, Sydkraft AB (now E.ON Sverige AB), between the years 1970-1987. He started his career as a trainee with Siemens AG, and later gained employment with Swedish engineering firm ASEA before embarking on his career path with Sydkraft in Malmö, Sweden. Björgerd was also the Chairman of the Board for Sydgas AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sydkraft and one of Scandinavia's largest suppliers of LPG.
- Herbert Baum
Herbert Baum was a German-Jewish resistance leader against National Socialism. Baum and family moved to Berlin when he was young and after he graduated secondary school there, he took on an apprenticeship as an electrician, which he carried on with as a profession. By 1926, he was an active member of different left wing and Jewish youth organizations, and from 1931, he became a member of the communist youth association of Germany (KJVD).
- Karl Küpfmüller
Karl Küpfmüller was a German electrical engineer, who was prolific in the areas of communications technology, measurement and control engineering, acoustics, communication theory and theoretical electro-technology. He was born in Nuremberg, where he studied at the Ohm-Polytechnikum. After returing from military service in World War I, he worked at the telegraph research division of the German Post in Berlin, and, from 1921, …
- Paul Mattick
Paul Mattick (1904-1981): Born in Pomerania in 1904 and raised in Berlin by class conscious parents, Mattick was already at the age of 14 a member of the Spartacists' "Freie Sozialistische Jugend". In 1918, he started to learn as a toolmaker at Siemens AG, where he was also elected as the apprentices' delegate on the workers' council of the company during the German Revolution.
- Lucien Gaulard
Lucien Gaulard (1850 - November 26, 1888) invented devices for the transmission of alternating current electrical energy. Gaulard was born in Paris, France. A power transformer developed by Gaulard of France and John Dixon Gibbs of England was demonstrated in London, and attracted the interest of Westinghouse. Gaulard and John Gibbs, first exhibited a device in London in 1881 and then sold the idea to American company Westinghouse.
- Cedric Gracia
Cedric Gracia (born 23 July 1978 in Pau, France) is a French mountain biker. He races in downhill and four cross(4X), and is ranked 5th and 3rd respectively in the UCI World Rankings (as of January 2006). Gracia rode for the Rainer-Wurz Siemens Cannondale team between 1999 and 2005, before joining the Commencal team in 2006. In 2003 Cedric won the Red Bull Rampage, a massive freeride competition.
- Gaston Tissandier
Gaston Tissandier (november 21 1843 - august 30 1899) was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine "La Nature" and wrote several books. His brother was illustrator Albert Tissandier (1839-1906). They were often seen together.
- Walter H. Schottky
Walter H. (Hermann) Schottky was a German physicist who invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 and the tetrode in 1919 while working at Siemens. In 1938, Schottky formulated a theory predicting the Schottky effect, now used in Schottky diodes. He was awarded the Royal Society's Hughes medal in 1936 for his discovery of the Schrot effect (spontaneous current variations in high-vacuum discharge tubes, …
- Rade Končar
Rade Končar (October 28, 1911 - May 22nd, 1942) was a Yugoslav Communist leader and legendary World War II resistance fighter. Rade Končar was born in the village of Končarev Kraj near the Plitvice Lakes, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia), to an ethnic Serb family. After finishing primary school, he left his home for Serbia in order to school himself to become a machinist. In 1934, Končar became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
- Peter Bialobrzeski
Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961 in Wolfsburg) is a Photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen. Peter Bialobrzeski originally studied politics and sociology in Germany before gaining considerable celebrity as a photographer. His photographs have been published in many magazines, and Bialobrzeski has worked for corporate clients such as Daimler-Chrysler, Philip Morris, Siemens, and Volkswagen.
- Wilhelm Riphahn
Wilhelm Riphahn was a German architect. Riphahn studied at technical universities in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Munich, and Karlsruhe. He worked for a Siemens construction office in Berlin and in 1912 for "Gebrüder Taut & Hoffmann". In 1913 Riphahn became an independent architect who worked with Caspar Maria Grod until 1931. Some of his more well-known works include the restaurant Bastei and the opera house in Cologne. Riphahn's grave is in Cologne's Melaten cemetery.
- Liam Scanlan
Liam Scanlan (born 1960) is the owner of Aqualocks. Scanlan founded three companies in the Seattle area, and is the author of two books. Scanlan was born in Dublin, Ireland. Originally underprivileged, it is reputed that at one time Scanlan was unable to purchase a hat. Fortunately, he was blessed an exceptional, intuitive intelligence.
- Seán Keating
Seán Keating was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the insurrectionary period and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent part of each year on the Aran Islands and his many portraits of island people depicted them as rugged heroic figures.
- Stirling Dodd
Stirling S. Dodd is a U.S. physicist and Ultrasound Engineer. He has worked at Philips Ultrasound since 2005 where he is an R&D manager. Dodd was trained at Reed College (B.A., 1990) and The University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D., 1995). His doctoral work ("Sonar Imaging of Elastic Fluid-Filled Cylindrical Shells") was supervised by Dr. Tom Griffy and Dr. Charles Loeffler with assistance from Dr. Philip Marston Washington State University and Dr.
- Magnus W. Alexander
Magnus W. Alexander (February 1870 - September 10, 1932) was a German-born US electrical engineer and designer for GE and Westinghouse who also became a social reformer. Alexander was born to Alexander M. and M. (Jelenkiewicz) A. Alexander. He studied mechanics, metallurgy and electrical engineering at Austrian universities in Vienna, 1889, Leoben, 1891, and Gratz, 1892. Following his education he was employed with Austria's largest steel company.
- Thomas McLoughlin
Thomas McLoughlin (1896-1971) was an Irish engineer. Born in Drogheda, Ireland, McLoughlin studied at University College Dublin and the University College Galway. After qualifying as an electrical engineer, he worked with Siemens in Berlin. He was impressed with the success of electrifying Pomerania, an area in Germany similar in scale to Ireland. McLoughlin promoted the concept of using the River Shannon as a basis for a hydro-electric and electrification scheme.
- Joseph Ó Ruanaidh
Dr. Joseph Ó Ruanaidh born in London, England, in 1967, and raised in Ballyfermot, Dublin, is a highly cited author in the field of Digital Watermarking. In 1990 he was awarded three scholarships to go to the University of Cambridge for his PhD where he studied the applications of Bayesian Methods to Digital Signal Processing. The work included novel algorithms for Audio Restoration as well as more general methods for analysing and detecting changes in data.