All articles starting with S

Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz

Siegfried (Vítězslav) Lederer's escape from Auschwitz: on 5 April 1944 the Czech Jewish prisoner fled the Theresienstadt family camp in an SS uniform aided by guard Viktor Pestek, warned Theresienstadt, sent a report to the Red Cross, and survived the war.

Siegfried Line

The Siegfried Line, German Westwall, was a German fortification system along its western border, built mainly from 1938 to 1940 and breached by American forces in 1944.

Sep 27, 2026

Siegfried Mureşan

Siegfried Mureşan is a Romanian politician of the National Liberal Party who has served in the European Parliament since 2014 and is an EPP group Vice-Chair.

Sep 21, 2026

Siegfried R. Waldvogel

Siegfried R. Waldvogel, born in 1969, is a German organic chemist known for electro-organic synthesis, a professor at Mainz since 2010 and a Max Planck Institute director since 2023.

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English poet, memoirist, and Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, famous for anti-war poems like Counter-Attack, his 1917 Soldier's Declaration, the Military Cross he later rejected, and his mentorship of Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart.

Siegfried Valentin

Siegfried Valentin (Siegfried Hans Rudolf Valentin), East German middle-distance runner (1936-2021); set the GDR's first official athletics world record, 2:16.7 for 1000 m in 1960, and first German sub-4-minute miler.

Siegfried Voigt

Siegfried Voigt, born 1950 in Schneeberg im Erzgebirge, East German handball goalkeeper; 1972 Munich Olympics fourth place, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold (23-22 over USSR), World Championship silver 1974 and bronze 1978, 177 caps.

Sep 21, 2026

Siegfried W. de Laat

Siegfried W. de Laat is a Dutch molecular biologist who directed the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht from 1983 to 2000, known for work on how growth factors signal through calcium.

Siegfried Wagner

Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (1869-1930), only son of Richard and Cosima Wagner, directed the Bayreuth Festival 1908-1930 and wrote 17 operas including Der Barenhauter, his own libretti throughout.

Sieghartskirchen

Sieghartskirchen: market town in Lower Austria near Tulln; home of SV Sieghartskirchen football club (founded 1946, Bodenfeldstadion), which left the Gebietsliga in 2025 after 2024 flood damage and now plays in the 2. Klasse Wachau/Donau.

Siegrun Siegl

Siegrun Siegl (Sigrun, née Thon), born 1954 in Apolda, East German long jumper and pentathlete; 1976 Olympic pentathlon gold on a tie-breaker, 6.99 m long jump world record, 1979 European indoor champion.

Sep 27, 2026

Siela Bynoe

Siela Bynoe is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Senate from the 6th district, previously a Nassau County legislator from 2014 and reportedly the first Black state senator representing Long Island.

Siem de Jong

Siem de Jong (born 1989, Aigle, Switzerland), Dutch attacking midfielder; Ajax academy product, captain, four Eredivisie titles; injury-hit Newcastle spell (26 apps); later PSV, Sydney FC, Cincinnati; retired 2023, now Ajax Technical Assistant.

Siem Heiden

Siem Heiden (Simon Heiden, 1905-1993), Dutch long-track speed skater; with Wim Kos one of the first two Dutch Olympic speed skaters (St. Moritz 1928); set the 5,000 m world record, 8:19.2 at Davos in 1933.

Siem Reap (district)

Siem Reap district (Krong Siem Reap, code 1710) is the capital district of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, upgraded to a municipality in 2009, with 12 sangkats, 99 villages, and 174,265 urban residents at the 2008 census.

Siem Reap (សៀមរាប)

Siem Reap (សៀមរាប) is a city in northwest Cambodia, provincial capital and gateway to the Angkor World Heritage Site. Tourism drives its economy; a new international airport opened in 2023.

Siemens

Siemens is a German industrial technology company headquartered in Munich, founded in Berlin in 1847 to make telegraphs. It spans automation, rail, and medical technology.

Siemens (unit)

The siemens (symbol S) is the SI derived unit of electric conductance, the reciprocal of the ohm, adopted in 1971 and named for German inventor Werner von Siemens.

Sep 19, 2026

Siemens & Halske

Siemens & Halske was a German electrical engineering company founded in Berlin in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske to make the pointer telegraph.

Siemens ACS-64

The Siemens ACS-64, also called the Amtrak Cities Sprinter, is a double-ended electric locomotive built by Siemens Mobility for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, ordered in 2010 to replace the AEM-7 and HHP-8.

Siemens Avanto

The Siemens Avanto is a family of Siemens light rail vehicles and tram-trains, best known as the five-section tram-train SNCF used on Île-de-France tramway Line 4.

Siemens Charger

The Siemens Charger is a family of diesel-electric passenger locomotives built by Siemens Mobility for fast regional and main-line service in North America, meeting EPA Tier 4 emissions standards.

Siemens Desiro

The Siemens Desiro, or Desiro, is a family of electric and diesel multiple-unit trains for regional, commuter, and suburban service, sold by Siemens Mobility.

Siemens Digital Industries

Siemens Digital Industries is the automation and industrial software division of Siemens AG, selling SIMATIC PLCs and lifecycle software including NX and Teamcenter, with about 68,000 employees.

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a Siemens AG division providing design, manufacturing, and product lifecycle management software, including NX and Teamcenter, built from the 2007 UGS acquisition.

Siemens E40 AG-V1

The Siemens E40 AG-V1, later marketed as the E40AC, is a six-axle electric heavy-haul locomotive built by Siemens Mobility in Munich for the coal railways of Queensland, Australia.

Siemens EDA

Siemens EDA, formed from Mentor Graphics, acquired by Siemens in 2017 and rebranded in 2021, is the third-ranked EDA vendor behind Synopsys and Cadence, known for its Calibre verification software.

Siemens eHighway

Siemens eHighway is an electrified road system in which an overhead contact line powers hybrid electric trucks, demonstrated in Sweden and the US and field-tested on three German corridors.

Siemens Energy

Siemens Energy is a German energy technology company headquartered in Munich, spun off from Siemens AG in 2020, producing gas turbines, grid equipment, and Siemens Gamesa wind turbines.