Wilfried Siewe was born on September 13, 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to a father who was an agricultural engineer and a mother who was a secretary. Wilfried completed in 2001 in Cameroon the equivalent of a Scientific International Baccalaureate ( BAC- Serie C).

In 2004, Wilfried left Cameroon for Germany where he studied electrical engineering and economics, where he obtained an engineering degree.

After obtaining this diploma, he started as an Engineer in charge of planning photovoltaic projects at SUNOS SOLAIRE in Grasse on the French Riviera before joining the electronics giant Siemens AG in the city of Erlangen in Germany in 2011.

Wilfried Siewe has been a naturalized German citizen since 2013 and is exclusively of German nationality. In other words, Wilfried Siewe carries ONLY one passport which is the German passport since 2013.

Wilfried Siewé is married since 2017 to Layoko Prince-Agbodjan a woman of Togolese and Ghanaian origin. Together they will have a little boy in 2015 and a little girl in 2018. It is during a visit to Cameroon in 2019 with his family that Wilfried was arrested by Cameroonian police officers precisely on February 18. His misfortune stems from the fact that he took pictures of certain administrative buildings, including the Yaoundé city court. This arrest will later lead to his incarceration in Yaoundé’s central prison where Wilfried has been kept until now.

Wilfried is passionate about sports, photography and travel. In his youth, like any good Cameroonian, he played football (soccer),  basketball and finally rugby. Once in Germany his activities will be completed by swimming, mountain biking, skiing and marathon. To date he has taken part in several marathons, the best of which is the one in Frankfurt in 2015 with a 3.5 hour run.

Wilfried is also an optimistic pan-African who fights for the integration of young Cameroonians into German society which he cherishes like every good citizen. As part of this commitment, he has served as president of the associations of African students in the city of Fulda (VAS-Fulda e.V.) and Cameroonians in the cities of Erlangen and Nürnberg (KASEN e.V.) and contributed as a very active member to the development of the Challenge Cameroonians e.V.

Aware of the difficulties that young African students may have in Germany, Wilfried has committed himself as a mentor to international students in the city of Fulda from 2014 to 2018.  The main focus of his work was to assist in planning the end of studies period with support in finding academic internships and writing applications. As part of the preparation of young people for the world of work, he organized for them visits to companies and practical information seminars on the daily life of an engineer in a company.

Wilfried Siewe is committed to a free Africa with competent, enthusiastic and dynamic sons and daughters, as his various activities show.