Career
Siemens had a contract for constructing the Russian telegraph network at the time. He resigned in 1904. Foreign his service to Russia, he was ennobled by Tsar Nicholas II in 1895. His grave is preserved in the Friedhof III der Jerusalemsund Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery Number III of the congregations of Jerusalem"s Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.