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Dassler
Dassler is the surname of: * Adolf Dassler (1900–1978), German cobbler and founder of German sportswear company Adidas * Armin Dassler (1929–1990), CEO of sportswear company Puma and son of Rudolf Dassler * Britta Katharina Dassler (born 1964), German politician * Horst Dassler (1936–1987), chairman of sportswear company Adidas and son of Adolf Dassler * Jonas Dassler (born 1996), German stage and film actor * Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974), founder of German sportswear company Puma and brother of Adolf Dassler * Stefan Dassler (born 1962), German author of non-fiction books * Uwe Dassler (born 1967, ''Uwe Daßler'' in German), German free-style swimmer See also * Dessler Dessler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Dessler (born 1928), American space scientist * Andrew Dessler (born 1964), American climate scientist * Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), Belorussion-British Orthodox ..., a surname {{surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Dassler
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (3 November 1900 – 6 September 1978) was a German cobbler, inventor and entrepreneur who founded the German sportswear company Adidas. He was also the younger brother of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Dassler was an innovator in athletic shoe design and one of the early promoters who obtained endorsements from athletes to drive sale of his products. As a result of his concepts, Adi Dassler built the largest manufacturer of sportswear and equipment. At the time of his death, Adidas had 17 factories and annual sales of one billion marks. Life The Brothers Dassler Shoe Factory, 1918–1945 Adi supported himself while attempting to start up his business by repairing shoes in town. Facing the realities of post-war Germany where there was no reliable supply for material for production or credit to obtain factory equipment or supplies, he began by scavenging army debris in the war-torn countryside: Army helmets and bread pouches supplied leather for soles; parac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Dassler
Horst Dassler (12 March 1936 – 9 April 1987) was a German businessman. The son of Adolf "Adi" Dassler, founder of Adidas. Horst Dassler founded Arena, a swimwear company, and became chairman of Adidas, and at the time of his death it was the world's largest sporting goods manufacturer with affiliates in 40 nations. Horst himself was known as the father of sports sponsorship as a result of his separate business of managing rights for the world governing bodies of football and the Olympics. Horst was also the nephew of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Career at Adidas Dassler joined his father's firm in 1960 and founded an Adidas affiliate in Alsace that later became the dominant sporting goods manufacturer in France. Among Dassler's achievements was the founding of the Arena line of swimwear in 1973. Dassler had been impressed by the performance of Mark Spitz at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Having developed an ultra-light fabric, Dassler persuaded Australian swimmer Shane Gould ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Dassler
Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler (26 March 1898 – 27 October 1974) was a German cobbler, businessman, a member of the Nazi party and also the founder of the sportswear company Puma. He was the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler. The brothers were partners in a shoe company Adolf started, "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" ( en, Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory). Rudolf joined in 1924. However, after a feud developed between them following World War II, the brothers went separate ways and started their respective companies in 1948. Initially calling the new company "Ruda" (an acronym for Rudolf Dassler), it was soon changed to its present name of Puma. Puma is the native Quechua word for cougar; from there, it went into German as well as other languages. Life After his return from World War I, Adolf Dassler, Rudolf's younger brother, started to produce sports shoes in his mother's kitchen. His father, Christoph, who worked in a shoe factory, and the brothers Zehlein, who pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armin Dassler
Armin Dassler (15 March 1929 – 10 October 1990) was the son of Rudolf Dassler, German founder Founder or Founders may refer to: Places *Founders Park, a stadium in South Carolina, formerly known as Carolina Stadium * Founders Park, a waterside park in Islamorada, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * Founders (''Star Trek''), the ali ... of the sportswear company Puma and nephew of Adidas founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler. Under his father's direction, Puma remained a small provincial company. Only under the direction of Armin Dassler did it become the worldwide known company it remains today. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dassler, Armin 1929 births 1990 deaths Armin People from Herzogenaurach Businesspeople from Bavaria German billionaires Shoe designers 20th-century German businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Dassler
Jonas Dassler (born March 22, 1996) is a German stage and film actor. Life Dassler was born on March 22, 1996, in Remscheid, Germany. Beginning in the eighth grade he participated in the theatre club at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt high school. After graduating in 2014, he started studying acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" Berlin. During the 2016 season he performed the lead role in Georg Büchner's ''Danton's Death'' at the Schaubühne in Berlin. Since the 2017/18 season he has been a permanent cast member at the Maxim Gorki Theatre and appeared in several productions. Reviewing his film performance in ''LOMO–The Language of Many Others'', ''Variety'' wrote that Dassler "show dstrong heartthrob potential". In June 2018, it was announced that Dassler would star in Fatih Akin's '' Der goldene Handschuh'' (''The Golden Glove'') portraying the lead character, serial killer Fritz Honka. His work earned him a German Film Awards nomination for Best Actor. Theater engag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Dassler
Britta Katharina Dassler (born 22 July 1964) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2017 until 2021. Early life and career After her bank apprenticeship and studies in savings bank business administration, Dassler passed the association auditor examination. She subsequently was employed in this field from 1989 to 1994 at the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband. Since 1994 she has been working as a freelancer and is the owner of the industrial agency "Arte di vivere" in Herzogenaurach. Political career From 2015 to 2019, Dassler served as deputy state chairwoman of the FDP in Bavaria, under the leadership of chairman Albert Duin. Dassler competed for the 2017 federal elections in the constituency of Erlangen and was elected to the German Bundestag via rank 9 on the state list of the FDP Bavaria. In parliament, she was a member of the Sports Committee and the Committee on Education, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Dassler
Stefan Dassler (25 October 1962 – 30 August 2023) was a German non-fiction author and docent for business studies. Dassler was born and grew up in Bamberg and graduated at Dientzenhofer-Gymnasium in Bamberg in 1982. After his military service he studied Economics at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, then moved to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1984, where he studied business education with a focus on organizational psychology. He completed his studies in 1991 as ''Diplom-Handelslehrer'' (graduate business teacher). From 1991 to 1993 he studied philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some .... From 1993 to 1995 he worked in a financial planning company in Bamberg, 1995–1996 in the Graf-Stauffenberg-secondary school. Since 1996 he has been wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Dassler
Uwe Daßler (born 11 February 1967), commonly spelled Uwe Dassler in English, is a former middle- and long-distance swimmer from Germany, who represented East Germany (GDR) in international competition. He was European champion in the 400-metre freestyle in 1985 and 1987. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Dassler won three medals. He won a gold medal and set a new world record of 3:46.95 in the men's 400-metre freestyle. He then won a bronze for his third-place finish in the men's 1,500-metre freestyle (15:06.15), behind Soviet Vladimir Salnikov (15:00.40) and West German Stefan Pfeiffer (15:02.69). He also won a silver medal as a member of the second-place East German team in silver men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay (7:13.60). See also * German records in swimming * Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics * World record progression 400 metres freestyle The first world record in the men's 400 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dessler
Dessler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Dessler (born 1928), American space scientist * Andrew Dessler (born 1964), American climate scientist * Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), Belorussion-British Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar and philosopher (son of Reuven Dov) * Michelle Dessler, fictional character in American television series ''24'' * Nachum Zev Dessler (1921–2011), American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, founder of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland * Reuven Dov Dessler Reuven Dov Dessler (1863–1935) was a rabbinic leader of the Musar movement and the director of the Kelm Talmud Torah from 1918 until 1931. He was born in 1863 in the city of Liepāja (Libau) in Courland, Latvia. His parents were strong sup ... (1863–1935), Latvian Jewish leader of the Musar movement See also * Dassler, a surname {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
