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Hoffmeister is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bert Hoffmeister (1907–1999), Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist * Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968), German astronomer and geophysicist, founder of Sonneberg Observatory * Edmund Hoffmeister (1893–1951), German, Army officer, ''Generalleutnant'' * Frank Hoffmeister (born 1965), German backstroke swimmer * Franz Hoffmeister (1898–1943), Roman Catholic priest * Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812), German composer and music publisher * Freya Hoffmeister (born 1964), German expeditioner and sea-kayaker * Gunhild Hoffmeister (born 1944), East German-German female middle-distance runner * Jesse Hoffmeister (1872–1933), Major League Baseball player * Werner Hoffmeister (1819–1845), German physician and botanist See also * 1726 Hoffmeister, main-belt asteroid * Hoffmeister (crater), lunar crater * Hoffmeister Quartet, string quartet composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Hoffmeister
Major General Bertram Meryl Hoffmeister, (15 May 1907 – 4 December 1999) was a Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist. He served with distinction during the last two years of the Second World War, becoming, in Jack Granatstein's words, "the best Canadian fighting general of the war", rising from captain and a company commander in 1939 to major-general and commander of the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division in 1944. Early life and career Born in Vancouver, British Columbia to parents Louis and Flora, Hoffmeister was a sales manager with the Canadian White Pine Co. Ltd. in Vancouver. He enlisted with the Non-Permanent Active Militia (NPAM, the Canadian Army Reserve Force) in 1927. He was promoted captain in 1934. After he was promoted to major, in 1939, he was made officer commanding a company of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, who went to England in 1939, the year the Second World War began, as part of Andrew McNaughton's 1st Canadian Division. Second World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuno Hoffmeister
Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Born in Sonneberg in 1892 to Carl and Marie Hoffmeister, Cuno Hoffmeister obtained his first telescope in 1905 and became an avid amateur astronomer. After his father lost most of his money in 1914, Hoffmeister had to leave school in 1916 to start an apprenticeship in his father's company. During this time he continued to study spherical mathematics and trigonometry. In April 1915 he had the opportunity to substitute as the assistant of Ernst Hartwig at ''Remeis Observatory'' in Bamberg while the current holder of the position was drafted, mainly working on observations of meteors and variable stars. He held this position until the end of the war and then moved back to Sonneberg, where he made his Abitur in 1920. After studying at the University of Jena, while at the same time continuing to work i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Hoffmeister
Edmund Hoffmeister (4 March 1893 – 20 February 1951) was an officer in the German Army, mainly notable for his service in World War II. Hoffmeister's military service began in 1914 in the Imperial German army. During the 1930s, Hoffmeister was part of the 'Foreign Armies' (german: Fremde Heere) section of the German military and acted as liaison officer with the Soviet Union on the development of mechanised units. Colonel (''Oberst'') Hoffmeister, as commander of Infantry Regiment 21 of the German 17th Infantry Division, was scheduled to link up with a 131-man ''Brandenburger'' commando team during Operation Sea Lion (''Unternehmen Seelöwe'') and push up the coast to Dover. Hoffmeister's division was to be part of the German 16th Army's area of operations. Operation Sea Lion was to have been launched in 1940 after the Fall of France, but it was abandoned in September of that same year. Promoted to Lieutenant-General (''Generalleutnant''), Hoffmeister commanded the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hoffmeister
Frank Hoffmeister, born 9 October 1965, is a former backstroke swimmer from West Germany. Frank competed in the 100 metre backstroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ... in Seoul, South Korea, finishing seventh in the Championship Final in a time of 56.19 seconds. He swam the opening backstroke leg for the West German team that finished fourth in the 4×100 metre medley relay in a time of 3 minutes 42.98 seconds. References German male swimmers Olympic swimmers of West Germany Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Living people World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century German people 21st-century Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Hoffmeister
Franz Hoffmeister (22 March 1898 – 27 March 1943) was a German Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sauerländer Heimatbund and Festspiele Balver Höhle. Life Hoffmeister was born in Ramsbeck. He was consecrated to a Roman Catholic priest by bishop Hähling von Lanzenauer in 1924. References In German *Theodor Pröpper, ''Franz Hoffmeister. Leben und Werk'', Verlag Bonifatius Druckerei, Paderborn 1949 1898 births 1943 deaths People from Hochsauerlandkreis Westphalia culture 20th-century German Roman Catholic priests {{Germany-RC-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was an Austrian composer and History of music publishing, music publisher. Early years Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar (Further Austria) on 12 May 1754. At the age of fourteen he went to Vienna to study law. Following his studies, however, he decided on a career in music and by the 1780s he had become one of the city’s most popular composers, with an extensive and varied catalogue of works to his credit. Hoffmeister’s reputation today rests mainly on his activities as a music publisher. By 1785 he had established one of Vienna’s first music publishing businesses, second only to Artaria, Artaria & Co, which had ventured into the field five years earlier. Hoffmeister published his own works as well as those of many important composers of the time, including Joseph Haydn, Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, Muzio Clementi, Clementi, Johann Georg Albre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freya Hoffmeister
Freya Hoffmeister (born 10 May 1964) is a German business owner and athlete who holds several sea kayaking endurance records. In 2009 she completed a circumnavigation of Australia solo and unassisted, becoming the first woman and only the second person to do so. Freya holds the fastest record for completing this trip On 3 May 2015, she became the first person to solo circumnavigate the continent of South America. Personal Hoffmeister has been athletic from a young age, able to walk on her hands around her family home at the age of six. She competed as a gymnast, but grew too tall for the sport at age sixteen. She shifted to skeet shooting, and at twenty-three took up skydiving, completing 1,500 jumps, including the first-ever tandem jump onto the North Pole. She is also former Miss Germany beauty contestant, coming in sixth in the competition. Hoffmeister owns a chain of seven franchise ice cream cafes, a salad bistro and a Christmas shop. Iceland circumnavigation In 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunhild Hoffmeister
Gunhild Hoffmeister (born 6 July 1944) is a retired East German middle-distance runner. She competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won two silver and one bronze medal, becoming the only German distance runner to win three Olympic medals. Together with Hans Grodotzki she is the only German runner to win two medals at the same Olympics. Her personal best time in 1500 metres was 4:01.4, achieved in July 1976 in Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o .... This places her ninth on the German all-time list. At the European Championships Hoffmeister won five medals between 1971 and 1974: three outdoors and two indoors. She also won the European Cup in 1973 and placed second in 1970. Domestically she collected 15 outdoor and two indoor East German titles. She set three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Hoffmeister
Jesse H. Hoffmeister (June 1872 - January 14, 1933 in Des Moines, Iowa) was a Major League Baseball player who played infielder in . He would play for the Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Founded as part of the American Associati .... External links 1872 births 1933 deaths Major League Baseball third basemen Pittsburgh Pirates players 19th-century baseball players Baseball players from Ohio Reading Actives players Allentown Kelly's Killers players Toledo Mud Hens players Youngstown Puddlers players Springfield Governors players Indianapolis Hoosiers (minor league) players Cedar Rapids Bunnies players Kansas City Blues (baseball) players St. Paul Apostles players St. Paul Saints (Western League) players Terre Haute Hottentots players New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Hoffmeister
Werner Friedrich Hoffmeister (14 March 1819 Braunschweig – 21. December 1845 Ferozeshah, Punjab) was a German physician and botanist. He accompanied his childhood friend, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar of Prussia, (2 August 1817 – 17 February 1849), son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851), as a personal physician on an expedition 1845-46 to India and was killed in a skirmish with the Sikhs. Hoffmeister collected plants during the voyage, and when the expedition returned it did so with a comprehensive collection of meticulously pressed and annotated specimens, by Hoffmeister. Of the 456 species and 270 genera, some 108 were new to science. The botanists Johann Friedrich Klotzsch and Christian August Friedrich Garcke were assigned to examine and describe the material collected in India, a task which they completed in 1853, and had published in 2 volumes in Berlin as ''Die Botanischen Ergebnisse der Reise seiner königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1726 Hoffmeister
1726 Hoffmeister, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid and namesake of the Hoffmeister family from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 23 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 July 1933, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany, and named after astronomer Cuno Hoffmeister. Orbit and classification ''Hoffmeister'' is the namesake and lowest-numbered member of the very compact Hoffmeister family (), which, based upon its low albedo, was most likely formed from the breakup of a 50–100 kilometer-sized, carbon-rich parent body within the past several hundred million years. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.7–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,700 days; semi-major axis of 2.79 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and an inclination of 3 ° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as at the Yerkes Observatory in 1924, extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoffmeister (crater)
Hoffmeister is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, to the northwest of the huge walled plain Mendeleev. Some distance to the north of Hoffmeister lies the crater Siedentopf, and to the west-northwest is Gavrilov. This is a somewhat eroded crater with Hoffmeister N attached to the southern rim. A small crater with a high albedo Albedo (; ) is the measure of the diffuse reflection of sunlight, solar radiation out of the total solar radiation and measured on a scale from 0, corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation, to 1, corresponding to a body ... lies along the common rim between Hoffmeister and this satellite. A small crater also lies along the northwestern rim of Hoffmeister. The interior floor of Hoffmeister is relatively featureless. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hoffmeister. See also * 172 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
