Siemens & Halske: version 1

Saved 2026-09-18 16:09 by @benjaminsen (bot): 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. Current is v4.

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1	1		# Siemens & Halske <!--company-->
2	2
3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: Siemens & Halske
5		−	summary: German electrical engineering company founded in Berlin in 1847 and later part of Siemens; it owned the Deutsche Grammophon record company from 1941.
	5	+	summary: Berlin electrical engineering company founded in 1847, owner of Deutsche Grammophon from 1941, merged into Siemens AG on 1 October 1966.
6	6		legal_name: Siemens & Halske AG
	7	+	ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
	8	+	ownership_source: ^si-history
	9	+	wikidata: Q2290583
7	10		country: DE
8	11		founded: 1847-10-12
	12	+	dissolved: 1966-10-01
9	13		<!--/identity-->
10	14
	15	+	## Relations <!--relations-->
	16	+	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
	17	+	\| ----------- \| --------------- \| ------ \| ---------- \| ----- \| ----- \| -------- \| ----------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \|
	18	+	\| merged_into \| company/siemens \| \| 1966-10-01 \| \| \| verified \| ^si-history \| Siemens' own history 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 \|
	19	+	<!--/relations-->
	20	+
	21	+	## Establishments <!--establishments-->
	22	+	\| mark \| kind \| address \| country \| source \| note \|
	23	+	\| ---- \| ------ \| ----------------------------------- \| ------- \| ------------------ \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	24	+	\| \| office \| Schöneberger Strasse 19, Berlin \| DE \| ^si-heritage \| The founding workshop, where the ten-man Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske began operation on 12 October 1847 \|
	25	+	\| \| plant \| Siemensstadt, Berlin-Charlottenburg \| DE \| ^wp-siemens-halske \| Works and offices erected along the western Spree in Charlottenburg from 1897; the site has been called Siemensstadt since 1899 \|
	26	+	\| \| office \| Munich \| DE \| ^si-history \| Head office of Siemens & Halske from 1 April 1949, with Berlin as a second headquarters city, until the 1966 merger \|
	27	+	<!--/establishments-->
	28	+
11	29		## Aliases <!--aliases-->
12		−	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
13		−	\| ------------------------------------------- \| ----- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
14		−	\| Siemens & Halske AG \| legal \| \| \| \|
15		−	\| Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske \| name \| \| 1847 \| \|
	30	+	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
	31	+	\| ------------------------------------------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ---------- \|
	32	+	\| Siemens & Halske AG \| legal \| \| 1897 \| 1966-10-01 \|
	33	+	\| Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske \| name \| \| 1847 \| \|
	34	+	\| Siemens-Halske \| search \| \| \| \|
	35	+	\| S&H \| search \| \| \| \|
16	36		<!--/aliases-->
17	37
	38	+	## Images <!--images-->
	39	+	\| asset \| kind \| source \| licence \| attribution \| url \| accessed \| note \| provider_entity_id \| provider_image_id \| source_image_url \| download_url \| retrieved_at \| matched_barcode \| match_method \| match_confidence \| original_width \| original_height \| stored_width \| stored_height \| upscaled \|
	40	+	\| ------------------ \| ----- \| ----------------- \| ------------- \| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ------------------ \| ----------------- \| ---------------- \| ------------ \| ------------ \| --------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------- \| -------------- \| --------------- \| ------------ \| ------------- \| -------- \|
	41	+	\| logo-aa62b2cf.png \| logo \| wikimedia-commons \| public-domain \| Siemens & Halske - defunct electrical equipment and engine manufacturer Vectorization: Mrmw \| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASiemens_%26_Halske_Logo_(1899).svg \| 2026-09-20 \| The interlocking S&H monogram adopted in 1899 and carried into the single Siemens trademark in 1966 \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	42	+	\| other-eddd7d68.jpg \| other \| wikimedia-commons \| public-domain \| Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V. \| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASiemens_%26_Halske_1920.JPG \| 2026-09-20 \| A share certificate of Siemens & Halske AG issued in May 1920, not a product photograph \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	43	+	<!--/images-->
	44	+
18	45		## References <!--references-->
19		−	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
20		−	\| ----------------- \| ------------------------------------------------- \| ------------------- \| ---------- \| --------- \| ----------- \| --------- \| --------- \| ------- \| ------------ \| ----------- \| -------- \|
21		−	\| wp-siemens-halske \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_%26_Halske \| Siemens & Halske \| 2026-09-18 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| Lead \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| \| \|
22		−	\| wp-dg \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon \| Deutsche Grammophon \| 2026-09-18 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| History \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| \| \|
	46	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	47	+	\| ----------------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \| ------------------- \| ---------- \| --------- \| ------------ \| --------- \| --------- \| ----------------------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------------- \| -------- \|
	48	+	\| wp-siemens-halske \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_%26_Halske \| Siemens & Halske \| 2026-09-20 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| Lead, History, In the 20th century \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	49	+	\| si-history \| https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/history/company/1966-1988.html \| Company development \| 2026-09-20 \| Siemens \| manufacturer \| \| \| 1897, 1903, 1945-1966, 1966: Siemens AG founded \| \| \| \|
	50	+	\| si-heritage \| https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/history.html \| History \| 2026-09-20 \| Siemens \| manufacturer \| \| \| How Siemens evolved since our founding in 1847 \| \| \| \|
	51	+	\| wp-siemens \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens \| Siemens \| 2026-09-20 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| Lead, 1945 to 2001 \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	52	+	\| wp-dg \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon \| Deutsche Grammophon \| 2026-09-20 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| History \| CC BY-SA 4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
23	53		<!--/references-->
24	54
25	55		## About <!--about-->
26		−	Siemens & Halske AG was the German electrical engineering company founded in Berlin on 12 October 1847 as Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske; it built one of the first European telegraph lines in 1848 and the world's first electric tramway in 1881, specialised in communications engineering after the 1903 Siemens-Schuckert split, and later became part of Siemens.[^wp-siemens-halske] It appears here as the owner that bought the Deutsche Grammophon record company in 1941 and that in 1962 placed it in the joint venture with Philips which was renamed PolyGram in 1972; Siemens sold its PolyGram interest in 1987.[^wp-dg]
	56	+	Siemens & Halske AG was the German electrical engineering company founded in Berlin on 12 October 1847 as Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske, a ten-man workshop in Schöneberger Strasse.[^si-heritage] It built one of the first European telegraph lines in 1848 and the world's first electric tramway at Gross-Lichterfelde in 1881, and was turned into a stock corporation in 1897.[^wp-siemens-halske][^si-history] After its heavy-current business went into Siemens-Schuckertwerke in 1903 it specialised in communications engineering and acted as the holding company for much of the Siemens group.[^wp-siemens-halske][^si-history] It ceased to exist on 1 October 1966, when the founding of Siemens AG legally and organizationally absorbed Siemens & Halske AG, Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG.[^si-history]
	57	+
	58	+	Group management of Siemens & Halske sat in Munich from 1 April 1949, with Berlin as a second headquarters city, while Siemens-Schuckertwerke was run from Erlangen.[^si-history] It bought the Deutsche Grammophon record company in 1941 and in 1962 placed it in the joint venture with Philips, the Grammophon-Philips Group, which was renamed PolyGram in 1972; Siemens sold its PolyGram interest in 1987, by which date the holding had long since passed to Siemens AG.[^wp-dg] During the Second World War Siemens & Halske used slave labour from concentration camps.[^wp-siemens-halske] The interlocking S&H monogram it adopted in 1899 outlived it: in 1966 the group's separate marks were replaced by a single trademark made of the Siemens word mark plus that monogram.[^si-history]
	59	+
	60	+	When it became a stock corporation in 1897 its shares remained almost exclusively in the hands of the Siemens family,[^si-history] and it later served as the holding company for the Siemens subsidiaries,[^wp-siemens-halske] so no company stood above it until Siemens AG absorbed it in 1966.[^si-history]
27	61		<!--/about-->

Source of v1

# Siemens & Halske <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Siemens & Halske
summary: German electrical engineering company founded in Berlin in 1847 and later part of Siemens; it owned the Deutsche Grammophon record company from 1941.
legal_name: Siemens & Halske AG
country: DE
founded: 1847-10-12
<!--/identity-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                        | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Siemens & Halske AG                         | legal |        |      |       |
| Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske | name  |        | 1847 |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref               | url                                               | title               | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wp-siemens-halske | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_%26_Halske  | Siemens & Halske    | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | Lead    | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| wp-dg             | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon | Deutsche Grammophon | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | History | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Siemens & Halske AG was the German electrical engineering company founded in Berlin on 12 October 1847 as Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske; it built one of the first European telegraph lines in 1848 and the world's first electric tramway in 1881, specialised in communications engineering after the 1903 Siemens-Schuckert split, and later became part of Siemens.[^wp-siemens-halske] It appears here as the owner that bought the Deutsche Grammophon record company in 1941 and that in 1962 placed it in the joint venture with Philips which was renamed PolyGram in 1972; Siemens sold its PolyGram interest in 1987.[^wp-dg]
<!--/about-->