History: Siemens & Halske
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| v4 current | 2026-09-23 19:04 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5-5) | Removed the two research-narration sentences from About (missing register number/address, undated name change). Settled owner_unknown: Siemens own history (^si-history) says the 1897 AG shares stayed almost exclusively with the Siemens family, and Wikipedia (^wp-siemens-halske) says the AG was the holding company for the Siemens subsidiaries, so Identity now has ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source ^si-history, explained in About; the existing merged_into company/siemens row records its 1966 absorption. Reworded the Deutsche Grammophon sentence to drop "appears here" framing. No references added; Meta absent; images kept (logo and 1920 share certificate both show this company). Not found: trade-register number, registered address, date the founding name was dropped. | |
| v3 | 2026-09-20 04:12 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Added logo (public-domain, Siemens & Halske - defunct electrical equipment and engine manufacturer Vectorization: Mrmw), other (public-domain, Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V.) image | Diff |
| v2 | 2026-09-20 04:12 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5) | Rebuilt the entry around the flagged gap: the walk up from Siemens & Halske now has a target. Added a Relations table with merged_into company/siemens from 1966-10-01, status verified, on Siemens' own history page, which states that the founding of Siemens AG on 1 October 1966 legally and organizationally absorbed Siemens & Halske AG, Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG; this is a relation row only, not an Identity merged_into, so the page stays readable. Created the missing stub as company/siemens, not company/siemens-ag: the key rule puts the legal form in legal_name and a legal alias, never in the key, so the name is Siemens, legal_name Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, with Siemens AG and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft as legal aliases. The stub carries GLEIF identity (LEI W38RGI023J3WT1HWRP32, Amtsgericht Munchen HRB 6684, Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 1, 80333 Munchen), wikidata Q81230, founded 1966-10-01, an office establishment, the Siemens AG wordmark question left to a later pass, and an About saying what it is to this page; GLEIF's direct-parent reporting exception NO_KNOWN_PERSON is cited as the plain statement that no company stands above it. On the leased page: rewrote summary to name the 1966 merger instead of 'later part of Siemens'; added wikidata Q2290583 and dissolved 1966-10-01; added an Establishments table (founding workshop at Schoneberger Strasse 19 Berlin, the Siemensstadt works in Charlottenburg, the Munich head office from 1 April 1949 with Berlin as second headquarters city); dated the Siemens & Halske AG legal alias 1897 to 1966-10-01 (stock corporation from 1897) and added Siemens-Halske and S&H search aliases; kept every fact and both original References rows and added three, si-history (siemens.com company development), si-heritage (siemens.com history) and wp-siemens (Wikipedia: Siemens). About is now three paragraphs: the lede with the 1966 dissolution, a history paragraph keeping the Deutsche Grammophon, 1962 joint venture, 1972 PolyGram and 1987 sale facts plus the slave-labour sentence and the 1899 S&H monogram, and a closing paragraph saying in plain words that the company was a stock corporation from 1897 with no company above it, so the page asks for no owner, and naming what could not be settled: no trade-register number or registered address for the dissolved company, and no date for when the Telegraphen-Bauanstalt name was dropped. Nothing was removed as unsupported. Two Wikimedia Commons pictures added through images: the 1899 interlocking S&H monogram as the logo, and the May 1920 Siemens & Halske AG share certificate as other, both public domain. Filing a cleanup flag on company/polygram so its single 1962-1987 Siemens row can be split into the 1962-1966 Siemens & Halske holding and the 1966-1987 Siemens holding, which is currently only a note. | Diff |
| v1 | 2026-09-18 16:09 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5) | created by review: Reviewed the whole entry against re-read sources and filled what the queue named. Identity gained summary (one sentence, 138 chars), registered_address (Muehlenstrasse 25, 10243 Berlin, from the impri | Diff |