Höss (surname)

	Höss (surname) Höss () is a German surname and can refer to several people including: * Maria Crescentia Höss (1682–1744), Roman Catholic saint * Otto Höss (1897–1971), Austrian football player * Rudolf Höss (1901-1947), SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp See also * Hoss (surname) * Hess (surname) Hess or Heß, a German and Ashkenazic surname, meaning somebody originally from the region of Hesse. Two alternative origins have been reported. Usage in the south of Germany may arise from a contraction of the personal name ''Matthäus''. Notabl ... {{surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Maria Crescentia Höss Maria Crescentia Höss (Höß), TOR (1682–1744) was a religious sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. In 1900, she was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, and she was canonized in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Early life Anna Höss was born on 20 October 1682 in Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, Germany, to Matthias Höss and his wife, Lucia Hoermann, as the sixth of their eight children. Only three of the children survived into adulthood. Anna became a weaver, but her greatest ambition was to enter the local convent of the Tertiary Franciscans in Kaufbeuren, which occupied the old Meierhof of the town, in whose chapel she often prayed. As a poor weaver, however, her father did not have enough money to pay the customary dowry expected of a candidate, so she was not admitted. Monasteries of the Third Order Regular Unlike monasteries of the nuns of the Franciscan Second Order, known as the Poor Clares, the sisters of the Third Order were completely local, living under the authority of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Otto Höss Otto Höss (4 June 1897 – 27 March 1971) was an Austrian football player and manager who played as a forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: Point forward Power forward (basketball) ** Sm .... He made six appearances for the Austria national team from 1923 to 1926. References External links * 1897 births 1971 deaths Austrian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Austria men's international footballers Wiener Sport-Club players Wiener AF players DFC Prag players First Vienna FC players Szegedi AK players SK Slovan HAC players Austrian football managers Neuchâtel Xamax FCS managers ADO Den Haag managers Servette FC managers Gefle IF managers Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austrian expatriate football managers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rudolf Höss Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer during the Nazi era who, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, was convicted for war crimes. Höss was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp (from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945). He tested and implemented means to accelerate Hitler's order to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution. On the initiative of one of his subordinates, Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced the pesticide Zyklon B to be used in gas chambers, where more than a million people were killed.Piper, Franciszek & Meyer, Fritjof"Overall analysis of the original sources and findings on deportation to Auschwitz" Review of the article "Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz. Neue Erkentnisse durch neue Archivfunde", ''Osteuropa'', 52, Jg., 5/2002, pp. 631–641. Hö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hoss (surname) Hoss is the surname of: * Américo Hoss (1916–1990), Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer * Bernd Hoss (1939–2016), German football manager * Elijah Embree Hoss (1849–1919), American bishop * George W. Hoss (1824-1906), American educator * Hal E. Hoss (1892–1934), American journalist and politician * Nina Hoss (born 1975), German actress and singer * Rudolf Höss (1901–1947), German Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp who was executed for war crimes * Selim Hoss Selim Ahmed Hoss ( ar, سليم أحمد الحص; also transliterated ''Salim Al-Hoss;'' born 20 December 1929) is a veteran Lebanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his h ... (born 1929), Lebanese politician {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hess (surname) Hess or Heß, a Germans, German and Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazic surname, meaning somebody originally from the region of Hesse. Two alternative origins have been reported. Usage in the south of Germany may arise from a contraction of the personal name ''Matthäus''. Notable people who share this surname include: Adam Hess (born 1981), American basketball player Adam Hess (comedian), British comedian Alexander Hess (1898–1981), Czechoslovak war pilot part of No. 310 Squadron RAF András Hess, Hungarian printer Beat W. Hess (born 1949), Swiss businessman Bernhard Hess (born 1966), Swiss politician Bernhard von Hess (1792–1869), Bavarian Lieutenant General and War Minister Carl von Hess (1863–1923), German ophthalmologist Catherina Hess, (born 1985), German actress Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot, nerdcore rapper Dean Hess (1917–2015), American Air Force Colonel Derek Hess, (born 1964), American artist Elizabeth Hess (born 1953), Canadian actress Elmar Hess (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]