Group Archives
Medical Archives
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The Siemens Medical Archives are located at the headquarters of Siemens Healthcare in Erlangen. Our function is to document information about the business and technological development of medical engineering at Siemens from its beginnings in 1877 to the present day. Through intensive public relations work we are focusing on raising awareness of the company history and the development and significance of medical engineering in the Metropolitan Nuremberg Region.
With over 200 items, the Siemens Medical Archives exhibition provides a good overview of developments in medical engineering over the past 130 years. The technological progress in this area is vividly illustrated by means of the historical equipment and exhibits on display. The Archives have developed a special didactic concept for visiting employees, customers, trainees and students. Those wishing to use the Archives' sources for academic papers are supervised.
Resources
The Medical Archives contain files and documents from the parent companies, their predecessors and subsidiaries and the supplier companies:
- Siemens & Halske (S&H, founded in 1847)
- Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall (RGS, founded in 1886)
- Siemens-Reiniger-Werke (SRW, from 1932)
- Siemens AG, Medical Engineering Group (from 1969)
- Affiliated companies, e.g.: "Phönix" Röntgenröhrenfabriken AG, Medicihaus AG, INAG AG, Adam Schneider AG, E.F.G. Küster GmbH, Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik AG, M. Schaerer AG, J. Odelga AG, Siemens-Hospitalia AG
- Regional companies in almost every country, e.g.: Elema-Schönander AB (Sweden), Gorla-Siama SpA (Italy), Siemens Medical of America (USA), S. Goto Fu-undo (Japan), Casa Lohner SA (Brazil)
The archive material occupies round 600 meters of shelving and covers:
- technological developments
- social institutions, manufacturing facilities, buildings
- congresses and exhibitions
- sales documents, patent specifications, organization plans
- circulars, contracts, annual reports
- records of cooperative research and scientific projects
- press releases
- personal files and biographies of important people from the company’ history.
The inventory also includes ca. 200 thematic photo albums, beginning with photos from 1900, the entire picture and negative archives of the photo laboratory of the former advertisement department with ten thousands of images (1888-1982), and around 6,000 systematically classified pictures. In addition, it contains several thousands of slides and glass picture negatives which document the earliest X-ray equipment, and the technological development and history of company buildings, workshops and employee apartments.
Furthermore, there is a collection of audio-visual material which contains films, sound recordings and microfilms.
Gas Turbine Plant Archives
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The Berlin Gas Turbine Plant belonging to the Siemens Group Power Generation (PG) was originally founded in 1904 by AEG as a turbine factory and was acquired at the end of the 1960s. The archive in Berlin thus primarily has archives from the factory’s AEG years, which trace AEG’s development as an industrial legend.
Our resources
There are around 20,000 historic and current photos from AEG and Siemens times. These mainly depict the manufacture of steam turbines, generators and gas turbines.
The AEG papers take up around 20 meters of shelving and include account books, printed publications, correspondence and plans.
In addition, there is a small collection of primarily historical steam and gas turbine models.
Medical Archives
Doris-Maria Vittinghoff
Siemens AG
Medical Solutions Archives
Henkestr. 114
D-91052 Erlangen
Tel.: +49 (9131) 84 - 2229
Fax: +49 (9131) 84 - 8791
Gas Turbine Plant Archives
Dr. Claudia Salchow
Gas Turbine Plant Archives
Huttenstraße 12
D-10553 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (30) 3461 - 2947
Fax: +49 (30) 3461 - 2151