Profile
Profile
As the central archives at the Munich headquarters, Corporate Archives is the memory of Siemens AG. Our function is to collect and document information about the 160-year history and development of the company. We concentrate on documents from the Supervisory Board, the Managing Board and the central Corporate Units, because it is easiest to reconstruct all the most important events, processes and interrelationships of the whole company from these sources.
As experts in the technological, business and social history of the company, we see ourselves primarily as an internal service provider. In addition, we support members of the public, in particular journalists and academics, by informing them quickly and competently about Siemens from a historical perspective.
Services
- We collect, classify and administer historically important files and documents, pictures, films and products from Siemens AG and its predecessors.
- We store all the archive material securely under the appropriate climatic conditions.
- We help with research in the comprehensive collections of Corporate Archives.
- We act in a consultative capacity for the Archives Network, and support and coordinate the establishment and development of decentralized historical Siemens archive units.
- We present highlights of company history in an attractive form.
- We help with the preparation and publicizing of anniversary celebrations, customer events and other special occasions.
- We provide historical exhibits for fairs, exhibitions and museums.
- We publish articles on company history.
- We regularly update the Siemens History Website.
Our resources
The comprehensive archives contain files and documents about the three parent companies
- Siemens & Halske (S&H, founded in 1847)
- Siemens-Schuckertwerke (SSW, founded in 1903) and
- Siemens-Reiniger-Werke (SRW, founded in 1932)
which merged in 1966 to form Siemens AG, and numerous subsidiaries and companies in which Siemens holds a participating interest.
The employees of Corporate Archives are currently responsible for around four kilometers of shelving containing files and documents, including business correspondence, price lists, brochures, printed publications, drawings and plans. An increasing number of documents such as circulars and press releases are arriving in the archive in digital form only.
The collections, which are continuously being expanded, include around 400,000 historic photos, and recordings of speeches and addresses of important people from the company. Around 3,000 industrial, economic and advertising films illustrate the history of electrical engineering and electronics from the 1930s to the present day. Their use is in some cases regulated by external institutions.
Our collection of exhibits includes around 17,000 products, from the pointer telegraph constructed in 1847, via the legendary first Siemens radio of 1924 to the first Siemens personal computer. This equipment or copies of it can be borrowed for exhibitions. The costs are met by the borrower.
Location:
Wittelsbacherplatz 2
Visitors' entrance:
Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 20
D-80333 München
Tel.: +49 (89) 636 - 32663
Fax: +49 (89) 636 - 35757