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Head of Siemens Historical Institute

Happy Birthday Siemens Real Estate - 30 years of building for Siemens On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Siemens Real Estate, our internal real estate partner, on October 1, 2024, we were able to take a glance into the early history of our company and reflect on the challenges our company founder, Werner von Siemens, might have faced in the early years of building and expanding the first plants in Berlin. With the continuous extension of the product range and the rapidly increasing number of employees, the need for additional production space was a key issue. The earliest reference to the Telegraphen-Bauanstalt's collaboration with a building contractor can be found in a letter from Werner von Siemens to his brother William from 1851, just four years after setting up his start up. Werner von Siemens worte: “For 6 weeks, I've been chasing after the […] contractor who is supposed to finalize the building plans based on the designs he was given! The guy is completely unresponsive and keeps postponing me in writing from one week to the next!” These lines show that construction planning was a personal matter for the company founder at the time - and one that was obviously associated with significant challenges. The situation changed fundamentally in the 1880s. For the first time, a separate construction and operations office was established for the extension of a Siemens factory. This was followed in 1912 by the creation of the first construction department for the Siemensstadt project. In 1971, Zentrale Abteilung für Bauten und Anlagen (the Central Department for Buildings and Facilities, ZBA) was established within Siemens AG. Finally, on October 1, 1994, it became Siemens Immobilien Management (S.I.M) - the nucleus of today's Siemens Real Estate, which received its current name in December 2000. Today, Siemens Real Estate (SRE) is our reliable partner in all aspects of real estate management, making a significant contribution to the company's success. Thank you very much for your work, dear colleagues, and looking forward to the next 30 years! The pictures show a selection of construction projects that Siemens has carried out over the past 177 years, from the expansion of the factory in Markgrafenstraße to the current development of a modern new urban quarter - Siemensstadt Square. #SiemensHistory #SiemensHistoryinObjects #SRE #SiemensRealEstate #TeamSRE

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Guido Jagusch

Passion for communications at Siemens

3mo

Wow, what a wondeful post! Thank you Florian for taking us through Siemens history of real estate. 🙏🏻

Grateful for SRE, your the intelligence on the ground providing valuable insights and inputs thereby making our products and offerings best in class, delivering higher value to our customers. Happy bday SRE!

Rishi Nair

EHS Professional || ESG || Infoscion || EX Siemens || M.tech in HSE & DM || NEBOSH IGC || ISO 14 & 45001 || Mech Engineer || Shutterbug

3mo

Happy to read the post and am grateful for Kickstarting my professional journey with Siemens Real Estate ❤ 👏 #sre

Levent Sander

Betriebsrat mit ❤️

3mo

Inspirierend 👍🏻💚🩵💙 Selam, 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 🤠 #Betriebsrat ❤️ #Siemens #Erlangen #Nuernberg

Mitali Kulkarni

Real Estate Leader | Stategy & Execution | Driving Global/Local Framework

3mo

Congratulations Siemens Real Estate 🙌🙌

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