12 Facts About Walter Siepmann

Walter Siepmann was the youngest son of Hugo Siepmann and prominent member of the Siepmann family.

Walter Siepmann was the majority owner of Siepmann Group, an industrial concern, as well as a board member of Commerzbank and board director of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association.

Walter Siepmann was born March 11,1902, in Warstein, Kingdom of Prussia, the youngest of three children of industrialist Hugo Siepmann and Luise Emilie Johanna Lammerhirt.

Walter Siepmann's mother was a daughter of Alfred Lammerhirt, who founded the predecessor company of Westfalia Dinnendahl Groppel in 1872.

Walter Siepmann grew up on his father's estate located at Hauptstrasse 145 in Warstein, close to his cousins, which lived on the property and would later engage in business activities with him in the family conglomerate.

Since 1937 the Walter Siepmann company was the second largest drop forge factory in Germany and one of the most modern in entire Europe.

Under the leadership of his son-in-law, Georg Konig, who was then the sales manager at PERSTA, Walter Siepmann set up a branch in Montreal to sell the valves, the now defunct Forged Steel Valve Limited.

Walter Siepmann handed over the company to his youngest son, Walter Siepmann, Jr.

Walter Siepmann was elected to serve as councillor of Belecke in 1940.

Walter Siepmann was an active member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

In 1933 Walter Siepmann married Johanna Luise, known as Hannaliese.

The main house Haus Mohnethal or according to other references called Villa Walter Siepmann has been his main residence since 1939, his youngest two children being born there.