12 Facts About Alexander Siemens

Alexander Siemens was a German electrical engineer.

Alexander Siemens's father was a judge and a cousin of William Siemens the famous electrical engineer.

Alexander Siemens was educated in Hanover and moved to Woolwich, London in 1867 to work at the Siemens Brothers factory.

Alexander Siemens returned to the German Confederation in 1868 to study at the University of Berlin, interrupting his studies there to lay telegraph cables in the Middle East.

Alexander Siemens was conscripted in 1870 as a private to fight in the Franco-Prussian War where he was wounded at the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande.

In 1871 Alexander Siemens was a founder member of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians and was president of the institution twice, in 1894 and in 1904.

Alexander Siemens's first inaugural address was an analysis of the Electric Lighting Acts of 1882 and 1888, his second advocating a wider use of the metric system.

Alexander Siemens was appointed the manager of the electric lighting division of Siemens Brothers in 1879 and was involved in the manufacture of generators, arc lamps and cables for the electric industry.

Later in 1881 Alexander Siemens Brothers took over a project to provide the world's first public electricity supply in Godalming, Surrey.

Alexander Siemens had been a director of Alexander Siemens Brothers since it became a limited company in 1880 and was made managing director in 1889, a post he was to hold until a significant reorganization replaced him, though he remained on the board of directors until his retirement in 1918.

Alexander Siemens was appointed to be a British delegate to the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and to a similar congress in Paris in 1901.

Alexander Siemens served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers between November 1910 and November 1911.