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Wolfgang König, Ginger Künzel - Sir William Siemens

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Wolfgang König (ed.), Ginger Künzel (ed.)

Sir William Siemens

2020

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Family and lifestyle S. 79-84

„… 1900.18 Otto Siemens had been one of the family’s problem children who to a certain extent were kept …” „… entries praising the Siemens family’s hospitality and the beauties of Sherwood. One guest wrote in a …” „… Centennial Exposition, 1876 81Family and lifestyle Family and lifestyle At the time of his marriage, William …”

The Siemens family and Werner’s influence S. 15-20

„… explicitly directed to science, technology, and math. But the family’s funds were insufficient to finance a …” „… 15The Siemens family and Werner’s influence Chapter 1 Background, Youth, and Education The Siemens …” „… family and Werner’s influence Wilhelm Siemens was born on April 4, 1823, the seventh child of Christian …”

Between Striving for Innovation and a Family Firm – A Conclusion S. 203-205

„… 203Between Striving for Innovation and a Family Firm – A Conclusion Between Striving for Innovation …” „… and a Family Firm – A Conclusion Together with company founder Werner von Siemens and Carl von …” „… . William acted as a representative of the Siemens family firm, but also insisted on his own independent …”

Introduction S. 7-15

„… even with the United Kingdom in new technologies, including electric telegraphy. And the family firm …” „… vie with British products in quality. Werner von Siemens involved his family in building up the …” „… family firm. William Siemens was a highly qualified and highly respected mechanical engineer for whom …”

Emigration, marriage, naturalization S. 30-39

„… built, open disposition, the apple of the family’s eye, but sometimes suffers from throat and teeth …” „… independence from his family, which Werner held on a tight rein. Werner wrote as follows about his brother’s …” „… the 1850s William could begin thinking about establishing a family. Given his personality and his …”

Chapter 8 Legacy S. 195-203

„… Werner’s daughter Hertha (1870–1939) collaborated on revising and proofreading the biography. The family …” „… business family, rather than as an independent engineer and scientist. Moreover, his name is an integral …” „… Siemens family the name referred to. 203Between Striving for Innovation and a Family Firm – A Conclusion …”

Werner and William S. 173-178

„… ’ concept of his family firm included that the (male) members of the family should be involved in the …” „… family. He acted as a mentor and educator for his younger siblings, also sharing responsibility with …” „… William had dedicated himself full-time to the family firm. But the younger brother was not willing to do …”

The German Expat Community S. 113-118

„… 113Personal networks tances and relatives. That of course especially included the Siemens family …” „… commitment to German culture and the German language. Obviously, he communicated with family and other …” „… Revolution failed, and from there went on to England, leaving his family behind. He actually was aiming for …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-0

„… Introduction Chapter 1 15 Background, Youth, and Education The Siemens family and Werner’s influence 15 – The …” „… Citizen of the World in Germany and England Family and lifestyle 81 – Technical and scientific …” „… Chapter 8 195 Legacy 203 Between Striving for Innovation and a Family Firm – A Conclusion 205 Appendix …”

Chapter 6 Scientific Studies of the Sun S. 169-173

„… brothers Chapter 7 A Summation William and his brothers Werner von Siemens’ concept of his family firm …” „… included that the (male) members of the family should be involved in the company and its development. He …” „… both parents placed Werner in a special position within the family. He acted as a mentor and educator …”

Life plans in conflict S. 51-55

„… brother Werner’s ideas for his family firm were heading in a different direction. Since the mid-1840s he …” „… he had not yet abandoned the hope of getting William more closely involved in the family firm, in …” „… brothers did.56 But he was not willing to devote his life entirely to telegraphy and the family firm …”

The Siemens companies S. 47-51

„… course with Werner’s concept of a family firm. The reasons Werner gave his brother for the rejection …” „… 1882–83, the founders also brought in the next generation of the Siemens family. The four shareholders …” „… , and his areas of focus changed several times. His brother Werner’s ideas for his family firm were …”

Investors and business partners S. 110-113

„… family, nor his business association with them. When William’s steelworks in Landore was founded …” „… tances and relatives. That of course especially included the Siemens family itself. Werner, William, and …”

The entrepreneur S. 191-195

„… Siemens companies and his personal involvements outside the family firm. The English branch of Siemens …”

Science, religion, and society S. 125-131

„… was given by Bishop Edward Benson (1829–1896), who came from a family of industrialists. A short time …”

The German Question S. 118-125

„… that his brother had set up in Kiel. The family had a certain personal interest in the conflict over …”

Bibliography S. 248-257

„… (1876), pp. 269–314. Lutz, Martin: Carl von Siemens 1829–1906. A Life Between Family and World Firm …”

Iron and steel S. 157-169

„… Friedrich rescued the company out of consideration for the family. Friedrich and Joseph G. Gordon, who was …”

Note S. 205-239

„… , fullest family history; see also Pole, Life. 2 SAA F2320, July 16, 1839 – Christian Ferdinand to Wilhelm …” „… corresponding with family members, who all continued to refer to him as Wilhelm.) 36 Siemens, On Technical …”

Technical and scientific associations S. 84-103

„… entries praising the Siemens family’s hospitality and the beauties of Sherwood. One guest wrote in a …”

Globalization via telegraph cable S. 55-79

„… Siemens family and with their partners there were considerable differences about how far to become …”

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Johannes Bähr

Werner von Siemens

2017

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Chapter 6 “Family genius” S. 150-185

„… the family’s business activities. As the oldest in the family he transformed, in short, from being …” „… the family’s protector and teacher to the head of the family company. Werner’s relationships with his …” „… entry meant that the majority stake of the firm remained in the family’s hands, without Werner …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-7

„… , and youth A family with a bourgeois heritage 15 – Idyllic childhood and troubled youth 22 – School …” „… abroad 135 – The “Nottebohm crisis” 141 Chapter 6 151 “Family genius” The band of brothers 151 …” „… 257 Megaprojects The Indo-European Telegraph Line 257 – Private business and family matters 274 …”

Chapter 1 Origins, childhood, and youth S. 14-37

„… symbol of the family’s origin is the Siemens house in Goslar that the merchant, brewer, and city captain …” „… did not fit the family’s self-image that the couple married and had a child before they had …” „… region were the happiest corners of the earth.”50 The family’s departure from the Obergut, the site of …”

Focused and determined in a time of change – a summary S. 426-437

„… . Siemens & Halske only developed into a family-run company in the course of expanding abroad. After his …” „… protect the solidarity of his family, which was also so important to the development of the company. It …” „… spell with remarkable consistency. This man’s personality was shaped to a great extent by his family …”

Chapter 2 Setting the course early on S. 38-61

„… family’s house.118 Friedrich and Carl may have been moved by this fact to leave the Katharineum and to go …” „… Prussian capital.1 Via the large extended family, Werner’s family had contacts that went up into the …” „… family, which had been interrelated with the Siemens family for several generations.2 Georg von Huet, a …”

Chapter 10 At the zenith S. 298-349

„… , the rise of the Siemens firms was soundly based on this family-oriented way of doing business and …” „… , the world of science was the milieu, excepting that of his siblings and immediate family, in which …” „… business principles was the family model. As the firm was growing, he placed great trust in family …”

Chapter 12 The legacy S. 390-425

„… understanding of a family firm. Now, although Werner repeatedly expressed his determination to delegate …” „… played in the company and in the family. Such behavior is rather a general rule among owner …” „… experiences with the Siemens Brothers, Werner must have feared that the company’s character as a family firm …”

Introduction S. 8-13

„… information about his family, business, and social spheres, for the first time.2 Alongside the entrepreneur …” „… and inventor, 10 Introduction Werner von Siemens the citizen, the husband, the brother, the family …” „… family company should be. The close ties between the brothers have not previously been systematically …”

Chapter 11 “To sustain the position achieved” S. 350-389

„… family-run company, nor did he have a manufacturing philosophy that he was seeking to uphold. By means of …” „… Siemens Brothers remained a family-run company despite its transition to a stock corporation, there was …” „… manager with such pronounced personal interests did not fit into his image of a family-run company …”

Chapter 7 In the shadows S. 186-215

„… birth and that their young son seemed to be a “great screamer.”10 The Himly family visited at Christmas …” „… was an obvious choice, but the name Arnold had not appeared in the Siemens family or the …” „… Drumann/Mehliß family before. There is no indication as to why Werner chose this name. All that is clear is that …”

Chapter 8 “Headed for a great time” S. 216-255

„… his family celebrated the victory at the Battle of Dybbøl, which proved decisive for the war, with …” „… flags and festive illumination.25 For the Himly family in Kiel, though, the joy was limited. Werner’s …” „… were in opposition – as were members of the Siemens family – troubled him, but he placed the blame …”

Appendices S. 438-575

„… Siemens (1735–1805) was born on the estate of Ohlhof near Goslar and represents the family’s transition …” „… Life Between Family and World Firm, Munich 2016. 5 David Warren Sabean, German International Families …” „… in the Nineteenth Century. The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment, in: Christopher H …”

Chapter 9 Megaprojects S. 256-297

„… . Disappointed, Werner wrote to his brother on March 9, 1872: “I had more of a permanent, family-owned …” „… of businessman, one who differed fundamentally from the inventor/family entrepreneurs like Werner …” „… business and family matters The construction of the Indo-European Telegraph Line had no influence on …”

Chapter 4 “Halske’s Workshop” S. 90-113

„… Hofrat Soltmann, a Berlin mineral water producer whose family he was friendly with. He claims to have …” „… changes on the family front, he 103The first Siemens pointer telegraph was under even greater financial …” „… affirmation of a share of future earnings. Johann Georg did not just accept this risk due to family …”

Chapter 3 “The damned money” S. 62-89

„… . The impulse for his new experiments, in turn, came from within his family relations, namely, from his …” „… distribution of roles in the family, their now 80-year-old grandmother Helene Deichmann wrote to Carl in …” „… family of his own as long as his younger brothers, whom he had to provide for and raise, were living …”

Chapter 5 Telegraph lines for Prussia S. 114-149

„… Himly family, who was raising their youngest brother Otto, had been living there for the previous two …” „… received reinforcement from the Siemens family. Werner’s younger brother Carl had helped in the laying of …” „… plans be taken up again. As Friedrich wrote in his memoirs, “in a family meeting” in Kiel it was …”

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Peter Theiner

Robert Bosch

2019

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Family life and political culture S. 15-20

„… of economic transformation characteristic of the mid-century. If one compares the Bosch family’s …” „… kilometers from the Bosch family’s home in Albeck: Family life is largely kept together by the external …” „… consequence of his experiences in his parental home.10 Along with the family’s relative prosperity, other …”

Württemberg prior to industrialization S. 13-15

„… Bosch. On his father’s side, the family’s lineage can be traced back to the Reformation era. Johann …” „… neighboring town of Jungingen.2 The family’s estate was splendid; the young beer brewer and agriculturalist …” „… traffic to the family’s estate. Servatius Bosch delivered his beer with his horse and carriage all the …”

Preface S. 9-13

„… family’s lineage can be traced back to the Reformation era. Johann Georg Bosch settled in Albeck in the …” „… family’s estate was splendid; the young beer brewer and agriculturalist Servatius Bosch ran the flourishing …” „… construct a new building after a new road was built that led the regional traffic to the family’s estate …”

Civic pride and patronage S. 69-76

„… development” for his company.285 These were also the years in which the family, with its increasing affluence …” „… meditative retreat into solitude, as well as holidays with his family.288 A middle-class way of life and …” „… skilled crafts. On account of his family upbringing, his educational path, and his constant search for a …”

Education and life world S. 20-29

„… weeks in Asperg.”26 Education and life world The life world and the foundations of Bosch family life …” „… networking technology” and as a vehicle of economic and national integration.27 The Bosch family felt the …” „… existence [is] torn away, spun away.”29 The Bosch family would have been able to relate to this. When a …”

Setting the course for corporate governance S. 190-192

„… footsteps in the family business. Like his father, the younger Robert likewise showed great interest in …” „… type of “extended idea of the family firm,”135 could potentially lead to the shareholders and their …” „… arose of splitting family and firm wealth, which is why his lawyer Paul Scheuing developed the concept …”

The decision to create the Robert Bosch Foundation S. 399-403

„… the will had to clarify how corporate, family, and philanthropic interests might be brought into a …” „… of Bosch were agreed upon by both the family and the executors of the will. The company founder’s …”

Armaments boom and concerns S. 273-287

„… “irrational influence of directors’ heirs.”144 Bosch’s former vision of “forming a type of family” with his …” „… with him. Thus, for the future, the conditions were set for the company being “built up as a family …” „… wealth of a family clan, but is instead an indication of the charitable goals that Bosch linked to his …”

The Bosch-Goerdeler connection S. 335-346

„… them. A statement by Bosch in the trusted circle of his family about the Führer proves the last …” „… Goerdeler, born in 1884 into a family of civil servants, received his political socialization in protected …” „… modernity, according to which, “[m]etropolises eat up humans and family, whereas the countryside nurtures …”

Social policies at Bosch S. 64-69

„… company.285 These were also the years in which the family, with its increasing affluence, began to lead …” „… meditative retreat into solitude, as well as holidays with his family.288 A middle-class way of life and …”

Great hardship and philanthropic foundations S. 106-127

„… ’ households had to pay more than 40 percent of the family’s income for a 3-room flat.98 In 1910, Robert Bosch …” „… Bosch and his family were affected to a very great extent by this dramatic downward pull in everyday …” „… War for a five-person family were 115 marks and prices for foodstuffs were soaring after the war …”

Take off, company founding, and a "chokehold" S. 39-46

„… of business was not sufficient to finance the personal needs of the craftsman’s growing family, the …” „… workshop. The financial “chokehold” did not bring about the collapse of the business because the family …”

Modernization and social policies S. 56-64

„… apartment on Rotebühlstraße. In the same building, one floor above the Bosch family, Karl Kautsky rented …” „… theoretical state? In the year the family moved, the Erfurt Program of the Social Democratic Party was …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-8

„… 9 I Heritage and Rise Württemberg prior to industrialization 13 Family life and political culture 15 …”

No conversion and a Liberal encyclopedia S. 82-92

„… led to a “split” not only within the company. The family, too, was perplexed, even divided, and Bosch …” „… , as the family father, found himself having to explain the strike events to his critical daughters …”

Motives for resistance S. 287-288

„… assessment, held “his protective hand over Bosch, both the family and the company, decisively and …”

The company and the effects of the war S. 187-190

„… his footsteps in the family business. Like his father, the younger Robert likewise showed great …”

For the republic and international understanding S. 238-254

„… agriculture. In his memoirs (1921), Bosch noted that he had “supported things for which my family background …” „… would seem to be the reason.”384 This referred to his descent from a large-scale farming family. He …”

The transfer of power S. 254-260

„… felt more secure with his family than in Stuttgart. He did not end up using the temporary quarters on …”

A backlog of reforms, Taylorism, and a strike S. 76-82

„… Württemberg.337 The family was not unscathed by such unconventional entanglements, which were observed with …”

Still for peace and cooperation S. 327-335

„… hunting. Lord Davies came from a Welsh family, the heir of a large fortune which his father had gained in …”

The company, the "Nazi wave"– an anniversary and the Bosch-Zünder S. 292-301

„… only trust certain individuals. How often it happened that one was denounced in one’s own family! You …”

Bosch and his Jewish fellow citizens S. 305-315

„… Amsterdam in case he himself needed to emigrate with his family.310 Fritz Mannheimer, a partner of the bank …”

In the maelstrom of the war economy S. 315-327

„… , production was partially transferred to underground tunnels. Company records and art owned by the family …”

Business as a cover for resistance S. 346-381

„… Bosch described the advantages of a “big, self-contained work family.”671 The work newspaper also …”

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Markus Schenk - Unternehmensnachfolgen erfolgreich begleiten

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Markus Schenk

Unternehmensnachfolgen erfolgreich begleiten

2021

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3 Rechtliche Instrumente zur Einbindung der Family Governance S. 69-86

„… 69 3 Rechtliche Instrumente zur Einbindung der Family Governance Auf der Inhaltsebene des …” „… Gesellschaftern führen. Zur Regelung einer Family Governance kommen folgende gesellschaftsvertragliche Regelungen …” „… Rechtliche Instrumente zur Einbindung der Family Governance 3 Rechtliche Instrumente zur Einbindung der …”

2 Methoden und Werkzeuge aus Coaching und Family Governance S. 15-68

„… 15 2 Methoden und Werkzeuge aus Coaching und Family Governance 2.1 Ausgangspunkt: Streit …” „… Untersuchung und Auseinandersetzung lohnen. 2 Methoden und Werkzeuge aus Coaching und Family Governance 2 …” „… Methoden und Werkzeuge aus Coaching und Family Governance 2.1 Ausgangspunkt: Streit und Konflikte um die …”

Literaturverzeichnis S. 161-162

„… Unternehmen über Generationen sichern, Betz, Markus: Coaching bei Unternehmensnachfolge und Family Governance …” „… Family Offices, NWB Erben + Vermögen 4/2019, S. 124. Bodmann, Holger: Familienkonferenz – Die …” „… attributes of the family firm, Family Business Review 1996, S. 199. Thomas, Kenneth W./Kilmann, Ralph H …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-10

„… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 Methoden und Werkzeuge aus Coaching und Family Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.1 …” „… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 3 Rechtliche Instrumente zur Einbindung der Family Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 3.1 …” „… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 3.5.2 Family Office …”

4 Führung in der Unternehmensnachfolge S. 87-92

„… Instrumente der Family Governance schriftlich fixiert vor, wird es ihm leichter fallen, sich darin …”

6 Typische Fälle aus den Bereichen Recht und Steuern mit nachhaltigen Lösungen S. 99-156

„… und Family Governance entweder verfahrene Situationen auflösen kann oder/und eine nachhaltige Lösung …”

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Mark Spoerer

C&A

2016

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Chapter 6 Family or Market? The Succession of Ownership, New Leadership Development and Corporate Governance at C&A S. 314-356

„… members and / or family-external employees.2 From the family’s point of view, two fundamental problems …” „… family-internal succession became available when companies began hiring outside leadership in the last third of …” „… problem of determining whether and to what extent family-external persons 1 See Rose (1993), esp. pp. 140 …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-12

„… family-related matters not relevant to the subject of this investigation. Under the leadership of Joseph …” „… Mark Spoerer C&A A Family Business in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom 1911–1961 …” „… Regensburg, with funding from the C&A entrepreneurs of the Brenninkmeijer family, who have been the sole …”

Chapter 1 Introduction S. 13-27

„… problematic, it is worth investigating the extent to which the family’s Catholic faith had an impact on their …” „… founded in the Netherlands and then made the move into Germany in 1911. One branch of the family had …” „… century. In 1841, the Brenninkmeijer family10 founded the C. & A. Brenninkmeijer company and opened …”

Chapter 7 Summary S. 357-366

„… recently been described in reference to the relationship of the family-owned company called Dr. Oetker to …” „… Chapter 7 Summary 7. Summary Th e history of C&A and the entrepreneurial Brenninkmeijer family is …” „… family, whose fathers Clemens and August had founded the clothing retail company C. & A. Brenninkmeijer …”

Chapter 2 The Rise of the Brenninkmeijers (1600–1918) S. 28-74

„… remain the Brenninkmeijer family’s home base for another 200 years. 11 See BD, sheet 51, DCM, Sig. 128926 …” „… a shop in Groningen, which had been part of the family’s longer-term plan. A Groningen textile …” „… retain for the remainder of the period under investigation. C&A was just one of many family-owned …”

Appendices S. 367-479

„… observed by the Brenninkmeijer family, developed over the course of many years and were written down in the …” „… 1960s by Willem Blaisse, a longstanding confi dant of the family. 1. Provide all sons – who have …” „… . Source: BD, sheet 86, DCM, Sig. 128926. Tables Tables Brenninkmeijer Family Members Employed at C&A Table …”

Chapter 3 The Development of C&A between the Wars (1919–1938) S. 75-183

„… Brenninkmeijer, the former partner from the family’s second generation whose service to the company was otherwise …” „… unemployment rate began to decline.8 For the Brenninkmeijer family, it was less the First World War than the …” „… , Bernhard Joseph was the only member of the second generation to remain active in the family business …”

Chapter 5 C&A during the Cold War and the “Golden Age” (1945–1961) S. 230-313

„… contributions to the Winter Relief fund, initially cosying up to the Nazis and establishing the family’s …” „… emphasising the family’s Dutch citizenship.114 Th e Dutch military mission in Germany, however, obviously saw …” „… about the future dominated the meetings of the owning family in 1945 – the Brenninkmeijers from Germany …”

Chapter 4 Friend or Foe? A Multi-National Dutch Company in the Second World War (1939–1945) S. 184-229

„… , of course, much better off in the family-run business than the majority of the 223,000 Dutch …” „… Th ere are few documents in the company archives in which members of the Brenninkmeijer family …” „… card with 100 points per family member to buy clothing over a three-year period. Larger items of …”

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