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German Student Association
The Verband der Vereine Deutscher Studenten (VVDSt), also known as the Kyffhäuserverband is an umbrella organization of 38 German fraternities called Verein Deutscher Studenten (VDSt)). History The first Verein deutscher Studenten was founded in 1881 in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Breslau, Greifswald und Kiel. Notable members * Otto Dibelius (1880–1967) * Johannes Dieckmann (1893–1969) * Hermann Ehlers (1904–1954) * Wolfgang Finkelnburg (1905–1967) * Ferdinand Friedensburg (1886–1972) * Hans Fritzsche (1900–1953) * Heinrich George (1893–1946) * Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935) * Helmut Hasse (1898–1979) * Wolfgang Heine (1861–1944) * Richard Heinze (1867–1929) * Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928) * Sepp Helfrich (1900–1963) * Otto Hoetzsch (1876–1946) * Joachim Hossenfelder (1899–1976) * Wolfgang Huber (1942–) * Peter Jensen (1861–1936) * Georg Kelling (1866–1945) * Gerhard Kittel (1888–1948) * Wilhelm Kube (1887–1943) * Rudolf Lehmann (189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Heine
Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German jurist and social democrat politician. Heine was a member of the Imperial parliament and the Weimar National Assembly, he served as Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt and Prussian Minister of the Interior and Justice. Biography Heine was born in Posen, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (Poznań, Poland) to Otto Heine, a grammar school teacher at the Maria-Magdalena-Gymnasium in Breslau (Wrocław, Poland), and Meta née Bormann. He attended school in Weimar, Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra) and Breslau, and studied natural sciences and law at the Universities of Breslau, Tübingen and Berlin. He worked as a lawyer in Berlin and joined the SPD in 1884. He was elected a member of the Reichstag in 1898, initially representing Berlin and from 1912 on representing the constituency of Anhalt. After World War I Heine became Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt, Prussian Minister of the Interior and Pru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubertus, Prince Of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (October 14, 1906 – November 28, 1984) was a German historian and political figure who was an early opponent of Adolf Hitler. He fled Germany and helped to promote anti-Nazism in the United States. He was a former member of Parliament, and was the author of over 40 books. He was the head of the Free German Authors Association, and was decorated by Pope John XXIII for work toward reconciliation between the Roman Catholic and the Greek Orthodox church. He was the son of Count Maximilian of Löwenstein-Scharfeneck and Constance, daughter of Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright. Prince Hubertus was instrumental in returning the island of Heligoland to West Germany from Britain which used this high-sea island for bombing training after Britain occupied it after World War II. See also *Löwenstein Löwenstein () is a city in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was first mentioned in 1123. The castle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanfried Lenz
Hanfried Lenz (22 April 1916 in Munich1 June 2013 in Berlin) was a German mathematician, who is mainly known for his work in geometry and combinatorics. Hanfried Lenz was the eldest son of Fritz Lenz an influential German geneticist, who is associated with Eugenics and hence also with the Nazi racial policies during the Third Reich. He was also the older brother of Widukind Lenz, a geneticist. He started to study mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen, but interrupted his studies from 1935 to 1937 to do his military service. After that he continued to study in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1939 when World War II broke out in Europe, he became a soldier in the western front and during a vacation he passed the exams for his teacher certification. He married Helene Ranke in 1943 and 1943–45 he worked on radar technology in a laboratory near Berlin. After World War II Hanfried Lenz was classified as a "follower" by the denazification process. He started to wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Lehmann (military Judge)
Rudolf Lehmann (11 December 1890 – 26 July 1955) was a German jurist and military judge who was the Judge Advocate General of the Wehrmacht in World War II. Lehmann was found guilty of war crimes at the High Command Trial at Nuremberg in 1948. He had close ties with Nazi Germany, but was not a member of the Nazi Party. Career His father was a professor of law. He grew up in Breslau and Hanau, studied law in Munich, Freiburg, Leipzig and Marburg and qualified as a lawyer before service as a reserve officer in the Imperial Army in World War I, during which he was awarded the Iron Cross. After the war he returned to Marburg University where he was awarded a doctorate in jurisprudence. He then entered government service as a prosecutor and worked at the Reich Justice Ministry. He entered the Army Legal Service in October 1937 and from July 1938 to May 1945 was head of the Legal Department. In this role he assessed the charges against Generaloberst Werner von Fritsch between Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Kube
Wilhelm Kube (13 November 1887 – 22 September 1943) was a Nazi official and German politician. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of ''Generalkommissar'' for ''Generalbezirk Weißruthenien''. He was assassinated in Minsk in 1943 after participation in the Holocaust, triggering brutal reprisals against the citizens of Minsk. An extreme antisemite and participant in numerous war crimes against Jewish people, he is known to have said about Jews: "What plague and syphilis are to humanity, are Jews to the white race." However, Kube behaved towards German Jews in a relatively mild way during his charge in Minsk, by trying—unsuccessfully—to protect German Jews, whom he felt as culturally closer, from extermination. As for Minsk, he planned to level the city and replace it with a German settlement, called Asgard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Kittel
Gerhard Kittel (23 September 1888 – 11 July 1948) was a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis and an open antisemite. He is known in the field of biblical studies for his (''Theological Dictionary of the New Testament''). Biography Kittel was born on 23 September 1888 in Breslau. The son of Old Testament scholar Rudolf Kittel, he married Hanna Untermeier in 1914, but there were no children from the union. In May 1933, he joined the Nazi Party. He had had no previous involvement in politics but called the party "a ''völkisch'' renewal movement on a Christian, moral foundation". On 3 May 1945, after Adolf Hitler's Third Reich capitulated to the Allies, Kittel was arrested by the French occupying forces. He was subsequently removed from office and interned at Balingen. In his own defence, Kittel maintained his work was "scientific in method" and motivated by Christianity, although it may have appeared an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Kelling
Georg Kelling (7 July 1866 – 14 February 1945) was a German internist and surgeon who was a laparoscopy pioneer and in 1901 performed the first laparoscopic surgery on a dog. He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin. He earned his medical doctorate in 1890, and later worked as a physician at the city hospital in Dresden. In the 1890s, Kelling devised an esophagoscope Kelling specialized in gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy. He is credited with performing the first laparoscopic examination, a procedure he referred to as " celioscopy". In 1901 he performed the procedure on the abdomen of a dog using a Nitze-cystoscope. Prior to cystoscopic viewing of the abdomen, Kelling insufflated it with filtered air via a device known as a trocar. Insufflation was used to create a pneumoperitoneum in order to prevent intra-abdominal bleeding. Kelling and his wife were killed during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. See also *Hans Christian Jacobaeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jensen (Orientalist)
Peter Jensen may refer to: Sports * Peter Jensen (psychologist) (born 1946), Canadian Olympic trainer and sports psychologist * Peter Aagaard Jensen (born 1956), Danish sport shooter * Peter Skov-Jensen (born 1971), Danish football player * Peter Friis Jensen (born 1988), Danish professional football goalkeeper * Peter Vindahl Jensen (born 1998), Danish footballer Other * Peter Jensen (orientalist) (1861–1936), professor and German orientalist * Peter L. Jensen (1886–1961), inventor of the first loudspeaker * Peter Herbert Jensen (1913–1955), German physicist * Kris Jensen (Peter Kristian Jensen, 1942), American pop musician * Peter Jensen (bishop) (born 1943), Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia * Peter Aalbæk Jensen (born 1956), Danish film producer * Peter Jensen (fashion designer) (born 1969), fashion designer See also *Peder Jensen (other) {{hndis, Jensen, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Huber
Wolfgang Huber (born 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg, Germany) is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009. Life Huber is the youngest of five brothers and grew up in Falkau in the Black Forest and later in Freiburg im Breisgau. He married the primary school teacher and author Kara Huber in 1966 and they have three children and two grandchildren. His father was Ernst Rudolf Huber, a well-known lawyer and German constitutional scholar. Huber's mother was the attorney Tula Huber-Simons. Huber studied Protestant theology from 1960 to 1966 at the University of Heidelberg, University of Göttingen and at the University of Tübingen where he received his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Hossenfelder
Joachim Hossenfelder (29 April 1899, Cottbus – 28 June 1976, Lübeck) was a German Protestant theologian. Works * ''Die Richtlinien der deutschen Christen.'' ed. Joachim Hossenfelder. Berlin 1932 * ''Unser Kampf'' (= ''Schriftenreihe der „Deutschen Christen“.'' Heft 1). M. Grevemeyer, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1933, ; 2nd ed. Gesellschaft für Zeitungsdienst, Berlin; H. G. Wallmann, Leipzig 1933 * ''Volk und Kirche. Die amtlichen Berichte der ersten Reichstagung 1933 der Glaubensbewegung „Deutsche Christen“'' (= ''Schriftenreihe der „Deutschen Christen“.'' Heft 4). Berlin, 1933, (Tagungsband); 2nd & 3rd eds. Grevemeyer, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1933. References Further reading * Klaus Scholder: ''Die Kirchen und das Dritte Reich.'' Band 1: ''Vorgeschichte und Zeit der Illusion 1918–1934.'' Econ-Ullstein-List, München 2000, ISBN 3-612-26730-2. * Joachim G. Vehse: ''Leben und Wirken des ersten Reichsleiters der Deutschen Christen, Joachim Hossenfelder.'' In: ''Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Hoetzsch
Otto Hoetzsch (14 February 1876 – 27 August 1946), was a German academic and politician. Son of a plumber, he studied history, economics and history of art in Leipzig, starting in 1895. In 1899 he obtained a PhD, worked for several newspapers and was active in the Alldeutscher Verband and favoured the creation of a German Navy. In 1905 he passed the exam as an interpreter in Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, French, English, Italian and Dutch. Between 1906 and 1913 he taught in the Prussian Royal Academy in Posen. In 1913 he became Professor for Eastern European history in Berlin. He started his political career as a member of the Prussian constitutional assembly. In 1918 he joined the DNVP (German National People's Party), and was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1930. In 1922 he helped negotiate the Treaty of Rapallo with the new Soviet Union, as an interpreter. He felt that this would also lead to an international rehabilitation of Germany after the Great War. He greatly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
