Georg Wilhelm von Siemens is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Georg Wilhelm von Siemens as German businessman (1855–1919).
Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was born at Berlin in 1855. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur and engineer.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Georg Wilhelm von Siemens died in 1919, aged 64. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
