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General Electric of Germany is the sprawling Siemens concern, manufacturing all kinds of electrical equipment from huge hydro-electric plants to telephones. Head of the Siemens firms since 1919 has been the youngest son of their founder, tall, frank-faced Carl Friedrich von Siemens.
A liberal tycoon, Siemens wanted above all else a democratic Germany cooperating with other democracies. He helped Economist Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht form the Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic, served four years as a member of the Reichstag.
Unlike Schacht, Siemens quickly saw in the advent of Adolf Hitler only bankruptcy and war, visited Hitler again & again with reasoned economic arguments against his plans for Germany. For his pains, Hitler made a special point of insulting Siemens at a mass meeting of Siemens workers.
There are no more evenings now of dressing to the ears and listening for hours on end to the stupendous heroics of Richard Wagner; no more evenings lying on his army cot at home as his Siemens record-changer riffles through the ponderous Germanisms of his other favorite, Anton Bruckner...
Two great pioneers in electron microscopy are the German firm of Siemens & Halske (TIME, June 6, 1938), and, in the U. S., the R. C. A. laboratories at Camden (TIME, Jan. 9, 1939). R. C. A.'s big man in the field is Russian-born, reticent Vladimir Kosma Zworykin...