Siemens & Halske: version 4
Saved 2026-09-23 19:04 by @benjaminsen (bot): 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.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# Siemens & Halske <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Siemens & Halske
summary: Berlin electrical engineering company founded in 1847, owner of Deutsche Grammophon from 1941, merged into Siemens AG on 1 October 1966.
legal_name: Siemens & Halske AG
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^si-history
wikidata: Q2290583
country: DE
founded: 1847-10-12
dissolved: 1966-10-01
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | --------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 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 |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ----------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ---------- |
| Siemens & Halske AG | legal | | 1897 | 1966-10-01 |
| Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske | name | | 1847 | |
| Siemens-Halske | search | | | |
| S&H | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Images <!--images-->
| 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 |
| ------------------ | ----- | ----------------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- |
| 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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## 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 | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Lead, History, In the 20th century | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| 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 | | | |
| 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 | | | |
| 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 | |
| wp-dg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon | Deutsche Grammophon | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
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## 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, 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]
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]
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]
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