Countries and Regions

From Berlin into the wide world, via London and St. Petersburg – Siemens was an international company from early on. As our country profiles show. One look at the anniversaries of the international companies shows how deep Siemens’ roots reach around the world today – or, expressed differently, just how large the company’s “local footprint” on the international scale is. Generations of Siemens executives have worked to establish the company as a local partner and a member of local society.

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Regional Information The name Siemens is synonymous with internationality and worldwide presence. Upon the death of founder Werner von Siemens in December 1892, the company was already represented in nearly 15 countries. Today, Siemens is a Global Player with locations in nearly all countries of the world. Every year, a number of Regional Companies and subsidiaries celebrate milestone anniversaries.

Siemens in Japan

In 1887, the “Telegraph Construction Company of Siemens & Halske” sent engineer Hermann Kessler to Japan. The Siemens office he opened in Tokyo just two weeks after his arrival was the electrical equipment firm’s first outpost in Asia. But even into the early 1950s, it was not always smooth going as the one-man Tokyo office evolved into the flourishing Japanese Siemens Group, which today has a workforce of more than 2,200 employees.

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Siemens in Russia

Siemens & Halske made its first delivery of telegraph materials to Russia in 1851. A business relationship that started with 75 electric pointer telegraphs evolved into a long-standing, successful involvement – the Russian market even helped Siemens through a crisis a few years after the company was founded, and grew into a buyer for a wide range of electrical products.

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125 years Siemens in Spain

Siemens & Halske had made its first contacts in Spain as early as 1851, with the idea of building up a telegraph production operation there. But it was only later that the company became truly established on the Iberian Peninsula – considerably later than in other European countries. It was not until 1895 that the first Technical Office was set up in Madrid, with responsibility for Spain and Portugal. Fifteen years later, the first Siemens plant opened in Cornellá de Llobregat.