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Degener
Degener is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Edward Degener (1809–1890), German-American politician *Gülşen Degener (born 1968), Turkish-born German carom billiards player *Jeannette Schmidt Degener (1926–2017), Nigerien politician *Isa Degener (1924–2018), German-American botanist and conservationist *Joachim Degener (1883–1953), German general *Otto Degener (1899–1988), American botanist and conservationist *Richard Degener (1912–1995), American diver *Theresia Degener (born 1961), German jurist and professor of law See also *Degen (surname) *Degner Degner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Betty Degner, American baseball player *Ernst Degner Ernst Degner (born Ernst Eugen Wotzlawek on 22 September 1931 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany - died 10 September 1983 in A ... {{surname, Degener German-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Degener
Edward Degener (October 20, 1809 – September 11, 1890) was a German-born American politician. He was a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas during the Reconstruction era. Originally from Germany, Degener moved to the United States and lived in Texas. During the American Civil War, slave-holding Texas joined the Confederacy, but Degener remained loyal to the Union, and was persecuted by the Confederates for this loyalty to the U.S. Two of Degener's sons were murdered by the Confederates in the Nueces massacre. After the war ended, Degener served as a Republican congressman for the Texan 4th Congressional District and as a San Antonio city council member in the 1870s. He died in 1890. Early life and education Born in Brunswick in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany), Degener pursued an academic course in Germany and in England. He was twice a member of the legislative body in Anhalt-Dessau and was a member of the first German National Assembly at Frankfurt-am-Main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Degener
Otto Degener (May 13, 1899 – January 16, 1988) was a botanist and conservationist who specialized in identifying plants of the Hawaiian Islands. Biography Degener was born May 13, 1899 in East Orange, New Jersey. Degener graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst). Intending to spend a year as a tourist, he arrived in Hawaii but decided to stay. He received his MA from the University of Hawaii in 1922 and his PhD from Columbia University. He taught Botany at the University of Hawaii from 1925 to 1927, and was the first naturalist for what are now Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park. In 1932, Degener started the first book on Hawaiian plants published since that of William Hillebrand in 1888. It was titled ''Flora Hawaiiensis'', and published in several volumes over his lifetime. On January 10, 1953 he married the botanist Isa Irmgard Hansen, whom he met in Berlin in 1952. They collected plants together in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Degener
Isa Irmgard Degener née Hansen (April 27, 1924, Berlin – April 13, 2018, Waialua, Hawaii) was a German-American plant collector and botanist, specializing in agrostology. She is known as the coauthor of ''Flora Hawaiiensis''. Isa Hansen studied botany at the University of Berlin and worked there as an assistant to Hermann Otto Sleumer and Erich Werdermann. Later she worked at the Berlin Botanical Garden and specialized in the grasses. In 1952 she met Otto Degener, who had come to Berlin in search of a grass expert. They began a correspondence and married in January 1953. The couple worked together, collecting botanical specimens in the Hawaiian Islands. They also made an important expedition to Polynesia. Otto and Isa Degener were associated with the New York Botanical Garden for many years. The New York Botanical Garden appointed Otto Degener as Collaborator of Hawaiian Botany in 1935 and appointed Isa Degener as Honorary Collaborator of Hawaiian Botany in 1975. In 1964 Otto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Degener
Richard Kempster Degener (March 14, 1912 – August 24, 1995) was an American diver. He won a bronze and a gold medal in the 3 m springboard at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, respectively. In April, 1936, Degener, along with many other sports champions and standouts, was honored at a banquet in Detroit, Michigan. This banquet was the first celebration of Champions Day. In July, 1936, a plaque was presented to Detroit from the White House honoring Detroit as the City of Champions. The plaque has five "medallions" featuring athletes. Originally the plans called for these five athletes to be a baseball player, football player, hockey player, power boat racer, and a boxer. But Joe Louis was surprisingly knocked out in a boxing match just weeks before the plaque was to be presented. Planners changed the boxer to a diver, to represent Degener, at the last minute. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gülşen Degener
Gülşen Degener (born 25 October 1968, in Şanlıurfa) is a female Turkish-born, Germany-resident professional carom billiards player. Career Gülşen Degener was born in Şanlıurfa, southeastern Turkey on October 25, 1968. She began playing billiards while she was at Uludağ University in Bursa, Turkey, studying English philology and literature. After graduation, she served four years in Istanbul and three years in Berlin, Germany as a teacher for English language. During her stay in the Netherlands, she played in the Dutch Billiards League. In the summer of 2013, she quit her profession as a teacher in Germany, which she had taken a break as she received an offer in the Netherlands to switch over to professional billiards player. She has been playing billiards for 10 years, the last 4 years professionally. After mastering straight rail billiards, she switched over to three-cushion, a more difficult variety. In the mid-1990s, Gülşen moved to Berlin, Germany. In 1999, she pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Schmidt Degener
Jeannette Schmidt Degener (1926 – 19 February 2017) was a Nigerien businesswoman, feminist and politician. A member of the women's rights organization Union des Femmes du Niger, she became active in politics in the 1960s. From 1996 to 1999, she was the only woman to serve as a member of the National Assembly and was elected as the fourth vice president of its Bureau. She was successful in campaigning for the legal age for marriage for girls to be raised from 12 to 16. Early life The daughter of a Tuareg mother and a French father, her maternal grandfather was Ag Mohammed Wau Teguidda Kaocen who led a revolt in 1916 against French colonial rule. Career Initially Schmidt Degener worked in the import-export business and ran a number of hotels and restautants. In 1960, she became a member of the Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally (PPN-RDA) and was active in the women's rights association Union des Femmes du Niger. In the early 1990s, she joined the Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Degener
Joachim Degener (28 November 1893 – 7 September 1953), was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. A lifelong professional soldier, he served his country as a junior officer in World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ..., a staff officer in the inter-war period and a brigade-level commander during World War II. Works * Greiner, Heinz, Joachim Degener: Aufgabenstellung und Übungsleitung mit praktischen Beispielen, Berlin: Mittler, 1938. * Greiner, Heinz, Joachim Degener: Gefechtsführung und Kampftechnik, Berlin: Mittler, 1937. References 1893 births 1953 deaths Military personnel from Metz People from Alsace-Lorraine German Army personnel of World War I Prussian Army personnel Major generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht) Rei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresia Degener
Theresia Degener (born 10 April 1961 in Altenberge, West Germany) is a jurist and professor of law at the Protestant University for Applied Sciences of the Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe. Degener is well known for being an outspoken victim of the ''Contergan Skandal'', also known as the thalidomide disaster/tragedy, which makes reference to the drug thalidomide first marketed in 1957 in West Germany under the trade-name Contergan. The drug, first described as a mild sleeping aid, caused thousands of babies worldwide to be born with malformed limbs. She is also a lead activist of the rights of Persons With Disabilities, and is the Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is also a member of the Human Rights Initiative Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation. Education and personal life Theresia Degener graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law, has worked at the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (DCDD) and is a Legal Expert a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degen (surname)
Degen is a surname of Swiss, German or Croatian origin. There are numerous unrelated families sharing the name, which can originate in a number of given names beginning in ''Degen-'' ("hero"); compare the '' Degener'' surname, from the German given name ''Degenher''. A family called ''Degen'' originally from Muotathal, Schwyz, rose to some prominence in the Swiss Confederacy in the 16th century. Members of the family were reeves in Riviera, Gaster, Blenio, Thurgau, and ''Landammann'' in March. This family was extinct in 1826. Notable people with the surname include: *Carl Ferdinand Degen (1766–1825), Danish mathematician * Árpád Degen (1866–1934), Hungarian biologist and botanist *Hans Degen (1899–1971), German World War II general * Ion Degen (1925–2017), Soviet and Israeli writer and physician. *Michael Degen (1932–2022), German-Israeli actor *Paul Degen (1941–2007), Swiss artist *Silvije Degen (born 1942), Croatian politician *Bob Degen (born 1944), American jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degner
Degner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Betty Degner, American baseball player *Ernst Degner Ernst Degner (born Ernst Eugen Wotzlawek on 22 September 1931 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany - died 10 September 1983 in Arona, Tenerife, Spain) was a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Eastern Germany. Degner was noted fo ... (1931–1983), German motorcycle road racer See also * Degener * Deger * Denner {{surname German-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
