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Jäger (surname)
Jäger (also Jager, Jaeger, or Jæger; ) is a common German language, German surname. It comes from the German language, German word for "hunter". Related surnames in other languages include De Jager, Jääger, Jágr (surname), Jágr, Yaeger (surname), Yaeger and Yeager (surname), Yeager. The surname may refer to: In arts and entertainment Acting *Frederick Jaeger (1928–2004), German-born actor *Professor Jager, stage name of Scott Folsom, co-founder of the League of STEAM performance troupe Fictional characters *Eren Jaeger, the main protagonist of the manga series ''Attack on Titan'' and its Attack on Titan (TV series), anime adaptation *Attack on Titan (TV series), Zeke Jaeger, the older brother of Eren Jaeger of the manga series ''Attack on Titan'' and Attack on Titan (TV series), anime adaptation *Attack on Titan (TV series), Grisha Jaeger, the father of Eren and Zeke from manga series ''Attack on Titan'' and Attack on Titan (TV series), anime adaptation Music *August Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, 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 language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Jaeger
Alex Jaeger is an American art director. Filmography *1996: '' Star Trek: First Contact'', visual effects art director *1997: ''Starship Troopers'', visual effects art director *2003: ''Hulk'', visual effects art director *2007: ''Transformers'', visual effects art director *2010: ''Iron Man 2'', visual effects art director *2012: ''The Hunger Games'', visual effects art director *2012: '' The Avengers'', visual effects art director *2013: ''Pacific Rim The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The ''Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. List of co ...'', visual effects art director References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American art directors {{US-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob De Jager
Jacob de Jager (16 January 1923 – 25 February 2004) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was the first Dutch person to serve as a general authority. De Jager was born in the Netherlands and joined the church while living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His work took him to Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and Canada. His first calling in the church was hymnal coordinator which he filled honorably. He also served as elders quorum president, branch president, counselor to mission president and regional representative before his call to the First Quorum of the Seventy. In 1993, de Jager was designated an emeritus general authority and he later served as bishop of a ward in central Salt Lake City. He is one of few people to serve as a ward bishop after serving as a general authority. He died in 2004 of causes incident to age. He married Bea Lim and they had two children. They were married in Indonesia and later, after joining the LD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jaeger
Richard Jaeger (16 February 1913 – 15 May 1998) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Under Ludwig Erhard's second ministry, he was Minister of Justice (26 October 1965 – 1 December 1966). From 1933, Jaeger was a member of Hitler's paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA). From 1949 to 1980 Jaeger was a member of German Bundestag. From 1972 to 1974, Jaeger was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre The European Documentation and Information Centre, abbreviated CEDI (french: Centre Européen de Documentation et d'Information), was a former think tank founded in 1952 on the occasion of an international congress held in Santander, Cantabria, ... (CEDI). He was married and had six children. References External links * 1913 births 1998 deaths Politicians from Berlin Justice ministers of Germany Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria Members of the Bundestag 1976–1980 Members of the Bundesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Jäger
Karl Jäger (; 20 September 1888 – 22 June 1959) was a German mid-ranking official in the '' SS'' of Nazi Germany and ''Einsatzkommando'' leader who perpetrated acts of genocide during the Holocaust. Early life and career Jäger was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and moved with his father to Germany when he was 3 years of age. Jäger enlisted in the German Imperial Army at the start of World War I, where he received the Iron Cross (1st Class) and other awards. After the war, Jäger, an orchestrion maker by profession, obtained a managerial position with the Weber orchestrion factory in Waldkirch. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 (party n°. 30988) and founded the local party chapter, as a result of which he became known as "Waldkirch's Hitler" among the ''Alte Kämpfer'' (Old Fighters), as those who had joined before the ''Reichstag'' election of September 1930 called themselves. The Weber company went bankrupt in 1931, and he was unemployed for several years. According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kees De Jager
Jan Cornelis "Jan Kees" de Jager (born 10 February 1969) is a former Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessman. He was State Secretary for Finance between 2007 and 2010 and later Minister for Finance between 2010 and 2012. Biography Early life De Jager studied at the Nyenrode Business University where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1990. Subsequently, he studied at the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he obtained a Master of Science degree in Economic sociology and Business economics in 1994. He also obtained a Master of Laws degree at the same university in 1996. In 1992, while still at university, De Jager founded Information technology company ''Spectra Vision''. All business activities were handed over to ''ISM eCompany (Innovative Solutions in Media)'' in 1997, the company of which De Jager was CEO until his appointment to the cabinet on 22 February 2010. In 2008, Sana Commerce (B2B e-commerce software ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20 July Plot
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland. The name "Operation Valkyrie"—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event. The apparent aim of the assassination attempt was to wrest political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party (including the SS) and to make peace with the Western Allies of World War II, Allies as soon as possible. The details of the conspirators' peace initiatives remain unknown, but they would have included unrealistic demands for the confirmation of Germany's extensive annexations of European territory. The plot was the culmination of efforts by several groups in the German resistance to Nazism, German resistance to overthrow the Nazi German government. The failure of the assassination attempt an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger (25 September 1895 – 21 August 1944) was a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany and a member of the 20 July Plot. Resistance activities In 1938, after the Sudeten Crisis, Jaeger took part in the German invasion of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten-German areas. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he was deployed in the invasion of Poland. From 1939, Jaeger forged contacts with resistance elements within the Wehrmacht, including Hans Oster, Friedrich Olbricht and Ludwig Beck. In 1940, he participated in the Battle of France where he earned the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ) and in 1941, he was deployed in the Russian Campaign. After his wife's death during a British bombing raid on 17 February 1942, Jaeger spoke with his son for the first time about his contacts with the resistance and their plans to overthrow Adolf Hitler. In the course of the year, Jaeger was made a colonel, and he was sent to the Battle of Stalingrad. There, he was wounded, and after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Jaeger
Alvin A. Jaeger (born December 10, 1943) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who had served as the Secretary of State of North Dakota from 1993 to 2023. Jaeger was elected to the office in 1992, and re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018. Biography Al Jaeger was born in Beulah, North Dakota in 1943. He was raised there and he graduated in 1961 from Beulah High School. He attended Bismarck State College and in 1963 earned an Associate of Arts degree. In 1966, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Dickinson State University, majoring in Business Education with a minor in Speech. He also completed post-graduate work at the University of North Dakota in 1968 and at Montana State University in 1970. During his high school and college years, Jaeger worked for his father's excavating and ready-mix concrete company. After graduating from Dickinson State, he taught at Killdeer High School for three years and then at Kenmare High Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jæger
Hans Henrik Jæger (2 September 1854, Drammen, Norway – 8 February 1910, Oslo) was a Norwegian writer, philosopher and anarchist political activist who was part of the Oslo (then Kristiania)-based bohemian group known as the Kristiania Bohemians. In 1886 he was prosecuted for his book ''Fra Kristiania-bohêmen'', then convicted and sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment and a fine of for infringement of modesty and public morals, and for blasphemy. He also lost his position as a stenographer at the Parliament of Norway. Jæger was defended in court by barrister Ludvig Meyer. He and other bohemians tried to live by the nine commandments he had formulated in ''Fra Kristiania-bohêmen''. The following year he was forced to flee Norway. He had been sentenced to 150 more days in prison after the Norwegian government learned that he had sent 300 copies of ''Fra Kristiania-bohêmen'' to Sweden under the pretense that it was a volume of Christmas stories. He was a friend of Edvard Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Jæger
Frank Jæger (19 June 1926 - 4 July 1977) was a Danish writer most known for his poetry and radio plays. He received the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy in 1969. He also edited two volumes of ''Heretica'' magazine with Tage Skou-Hansen. Early life and education Jæger was born in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen on 19 June 1926. He graduated from Schneekloth's School in 1945 and from the Royal School of Library Science in 1950 but could by then already make a living from his writings. Bibliography * '' Dydige digte'' (1948) * ''Morgenens trompet'' (digte, 1949) * ''De fem årstider'' (digte, 1950) * ''Iners'' (roman, 1950) * ''Hverdagshistorier'' (1951) * ''Tune – det første år'' (børnebog, 1951) * '' Den unge Jægers lidelser'' (noveller, 1953) * ''Tyren'' (digte, 1953) * ''19 Jægerviser'' (1953) * ''Jomfruen fra Orléans, Jeanne d'Arc'' (biografi, 1955) * ''Havkarlens sange'' (digte, 1956) * ''Kapellanen og andre fortællinger'' (1957) * ''Til en følsom Venin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Jäger
Stefan Jäger (May 28, 1877 in Cenei, Tschene/Torontál – March 16, 1962 in Jimbolia/Hatzfeld, Banat#Romanian Banat, Romanian Banat) was a Painting, painter known for his depiction of and deep identification with the Danube Swabian community to which he belonged. There are some grounds for categorising him as a Hungary, Hungarian painter - since in the first half of his life he lived in what was part of Hungary, and some of his early career was spent in Budapest under the influence of Hungarian painters; a Romanian painter - since in the second half of his life his home region was part of Romania, and his contribution to Romanian culture was recognised by the government through awards in his lifetime and the maintenance of his home as museum up to the present; and a Germans, German painter - since, though he never lived in Germany, his identity as an ethnic German played a central part in his life and his artistic work. Biography Stefan Jäger, son of the barber Franz Jäger a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
