- Founded as a courtyard workshop in Berlin on October 1, 1847
- Around four million people employed worldwide to date since 1847
- Current global market leader in automation, electrification, digitalization and transportation
- Celebration in Berlin with German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz
On October
12, 1847, Siemens started operations as a small factory workshop with ten
employees manufacturing pointer telegraphs, in a courtyard tucked away behind a
building on Schoeneberger Strasse in Berlin. Now, 175 years later, Siemens has more
than 300,000 employees around the world and, with around €62 billion in annual
revenue, is one of the world’s largest technology powerhouses. On
October 1, 1847, 11 days before operations began, Werner von Siemens and
precision mechanic Johann Georg Halske had completed the company’s official
founding. Today, October 12, 2022, Siemens is marking its 175th birthday with a
celebratory event at the Schaltwerk factory in the Siemensstadt section of
Berlin. German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, together with numerous guests
from the realms of politics, business and academia will join the anniversary event.
- Hannes Apitzsch to retire; business to be handed over effective October 1, 2022
- Eckard Eberle – formerly CEO of Process Automation Business Unit at Siemens Digital Industries – has extensive track record inside and outside Germany
- Eberle will focus on developing the business strategically and operationally creating additional value for Siemens Group
Eckard
Eberle (57) will be appointed as the new CEO of Siemens Global Business
Services (GBS) with effect from October 1, 2022. He will report directly to
Judith Wiese, member of the Siemens AG Managing Board and Chief People and
Sustainability Officer (CPSO). GBS designs, develops and operates efficient and
innovative business services for Siemens AG, Siemens Healthineers AG, Siemens
Energy AG and other companies. Eckard Eberle succeeds Hannes Apitzsch (64), who
has led GBS since 2019 as CEO and is entering retirement after more than 40
years at the company. Hannes Apitzsch will continue to support Siemens in an
advisory capacity until December 31, 2022.
- Siemens and partners launch safe.trAIn
research project
- Practicable linking of AI processes with
requirements and approval procedures in railway environments
- AI-based methodologies for driverless
regional trains
- Safe.trAIn to support standardization
activities in AI and rail transportation
In a project that will run until the end of 2024, Siemens
and 16 partners will facilitate advances in the driverless operation of
regional trains with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). Within the “safe.trAIn”
project, which the German government is subsidizing, there is a budget of €23 million
available for this task. Solutions for meeting the requirements in this highly
regulated and standardized environment have the potential to substantially boost
the efficiency and sustainability of regional railway transportation.
- Cooperative project to train more than 600 young women from five countries in Africa in ICT, coding, leadership and communications skills, in the context of the African Girls Can Code Initiative
- Siemens to make €780,000 available in the form of hardware, IT training materials and technical assistance to enhance young girls’ access to jobs and employment opportunities
- UN Women Liaison Office to African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to coordinate activities under the umbrella of „African Girls Can Code Initiative“
Siemens AG and
UN Women Germany committed to jointly support the implementation of the African
Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI), an Africa continental program which aims to
provide comprehensive training in information and communication technology (ICT)
as well as coding and leadership skills to girls and young women in Africa. In
this connection, the partners emphasized the vital role education plays in addressing
gender inequalities and accelerating the empowerment of women and girls. The
project’s target group comprises young women aged 17 to 25 from Kenya, Rwanda,
Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Within two years, as many as 625 young women will
benefit from the partnership; all offerings are free of charge for the
participants. By 2023, Siemens will initially provide €500,000 for this cause and
will support two-week, full-time coding camps in the five countries with digital
literacy, programming as well as personal development skills. Specifically, the
coding camps will cover topics such as robotics, the Internet of Things,
animation, 3D printing, gender equality and women’s empowerment, leadership,
and communications.
- Hydrogen generation plant with electrical capacity of 8.75 megawatts opened in Wunsiedel
- Facility to generate 1,350 tons of hydrogen a year and cut CO2 emissions by about 13,500 tons
- Opening attended by Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder and Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius
- Siemens is technology and financing partner
In Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia,
one of Germany’s largest green hydrogen generation plants has been planned
digitally and commissioned by Siemens, demonstrating the key role hydrogen can
play in Germany’s energy future.
Around
one year after the official groundbreaking ceremony, Bavaria’s Minister-President
Markus Söder, Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius and Siemens Financial
Services CEO Veronika Bienert handed over the plant to the operating company
WUN H2, represented by Managing Directors Thilo Rießner and Philipp Matthes.
- Siemens empowers world premiere of the Opera Namibia project Chief Hijangua in Windhoek
- Opera staged by a multinational team of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa
On September 9,
2022, an ensemble of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa presented at the National Theatre of
Namibia the premier performance of Namibia’s very first opera in the country’s capital, Windhoek. Chief Hijangua is a celebration of a bilingual and intercultural exchange on the dramatic
history that Namibia and Germany shared during colonial times and is sung in Otjiherero – one of Namibia’s
national languages – and German.
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The global
charitable organization Siemens Caring Hands will provide $250,000 to Unlimited
Tomorrow Global Initiative to secure prostheses for victims in Ukraine
- Siemens
software is used for the personalized development and 3D printing of
prostheses, enabling delivery directly to victims in the Ukraine
The war in
Ukraine has produced numerous amputation victims. In total, more than 10,000
prostheses are needed in the country. To help those affected who have lost one
or more limbs, Unlimited Tomorrow Global Initiative (UTGI) has launched a
fundraising initiative in partnership with Singularity
Group to deliver 100 of its personalized TrueLimb prostheses to Ukraine.
Siemens Caring Hands is contributing to the initiative through an initial
$250,000 donation, which will cover the costs for 25 victims.
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More than 1,300
apprentices and university students in work-study programs begin careers at
Siemens locations across Germany in 2022
- Focus on personalized
skill development
- Training program
for digital-transformation qualifications expanded again
- Siemens invests
€160 million a year in training programs
This year, as
in 2021, more than 1,300 apprentices and university students in work-study
programs will begin their work lives at Siemens locations across Germany. These
traineeships include 800 positions at Siemens AG, 190 at Siemens Mobility,
and 130 at Siemens Healthineers. In addition, 200 trainees from the company’s external
partners are also beginning training programs offered by Siemens Professional
Education. More than half of the overall number of traineeships are in work-study
programs for university students. Siemens has one of the private sector’s
largest and most innovative job training programs worldwide
and invests €160 million a year in this area.
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New
leadership appointments effective October 1, 2022
- Jenny
Bofinger, currently head of Sustainability, will join the board of the newly
formed International Sustainability Standards Board
Siemens AG
today announced new leadership appointments in its Sustainability and Investor Relations
departments, effective October 1. Eva Riesenhuber (49), currently head of Investor
Relations, will assume the role of global head of Sustainability and Eva
Scherer (38), currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Rail
Infrastructure and Software Business Units at Siemens Mobility, is appointed
head of Investor Relations.