Editing Werner von Siemens (section)

===Personal life===
He was married twice: first in 1852 to Mathilde Drumann (died 1 July 1867), the daughter of the historian [[Wilhelm Drumann]]; second in 1869 to his relative Antonie Siemens (1840–1900). His children from first marriage were [[Arnold von Siemens]] and [[Georg Wilhelm von Siemens]], and his children from second marriage were Hertha von Siemens (1870 – 5 January 1939), married in 1899 to [[Carl Dietrich Harries]], and [[Carl Friedrich von Siemens]].

Siemens was an advocate of [[social democracy]],<ref>Werner von Siemens (1893). ''Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens''. Asher. p. 373</ref> and he hoped that [[industrial development]] would not be used in favour of [[capitalism]], stating:

{{Quote|A number of great factories in the hands of rich capitalists, in which "slaves of work" drag out their miserable existence, is not, therefore, the goal of the development of the age of natural science, but a return to individual labour, or where the nature of things demands it, the carrying on of common workshops by unions of workmen, who will receive a sound basis only through the general extension of knowledge and civilization, and through the possibility of obtaining cheaper capital.<ref>D. Appleton., (1887). ''Popular Science Monthly'', Volume 30.</ref>}}

He also rejected the claim that science leads to [[materialism]], stating instead:

{{Quote|Equally unfounded is the complaint that the study of science and the technical application of the forces of nature gives to mankind a thoroughly material direction, makes them proud of their knowledge and power, and alienates ideal endeavours. The deeper we penetrate into the harmonious action of natural forces regulated by eternal unalterable laws, and yet so thickly veiled from our complete comprehension, the more we feel on the contrary moved to humble modesty, the smaller appears to us the extent  of our knowledge, the more active is our endeavour to draw more from the inexhaustible fountain of knowledge, and understanding, and the higher rises our admiration of the endless wisdom which ordains and penetrates the whole creation.<ref>Bonnier Corporation. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tyoDAAAAMBAJ Popular Science]'' Apr 1887,Vol. 30, No. 46. {{ISSN|0161-7370}}. pp. 814–820</ref><ref>Werner von Siemens (1895). ''Scientific & technical papers of Werner von Siemens''. J. Murray. p. 518</ref><ref>A similar account is given in Siemens, Werner von  (1893). ''Personal Recollections'', p. 373: "I also tried in my lecture to show that the study of the physical sciences in its further progress and general diffusion would not brutalize men and divert them from ideal aspirations, but on the contrary would lead them to humble admiration of the incomprehensible wisdom pervading the whole creation and must therefore ennoble and improve them."</ref>}}