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Konrad Adenauer Prize
The Konrad Adenauer Prize (german: link=no, Konrad-Adenauer-Preis) was an award by the Germany Foundation, a national conservative organisation associated with the Christian Democratic Union, from 1967 to 2001 It was given annually between 1973 and 1975, then every two years, with exceptions, from 1975 to 2001. It was given to right-wing intellectuals and was named in memory of statesman and former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The journalism and literary prizes are now both separate prizes altogether. This is not to be confused with the Konrad-Adenauer-Preis given by the city of Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m .... List of prize winners References {{reflist German awards Konrad Adenauer German literary awards German science and technology awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany Foundation
The Germany Foundation (german: Deutschland-Stiftung) was a national conservative German organisation associated with the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union, that existed from 1966 to 2007. It was founded in Rosenheim in Bavaria and incorporated in 1967. The organisation was founded by author Kurt Ziesel after a visit to Konrad Adenauer, who became its first honorary president. From 1967 to 2001 the foundation awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize and published the magazine '' Deutschland-Magazin''. The foundation was viewed as an organisation of the conservative faction within CDU/CSU, and was staunchly anti-communist. The foundation dissolved because of a lack of funds. Related persons include: *Konrad Adenauer; honorary president *Alfons Goppel; member of the honorary board *Heinrich Hellwege; member of the honorary board *Hans-Joachim von Merkatz; member of the honorary board *Hans-Joachim Schoeps; member of the advisory board * Gerhard Löwenthal; pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenta Maurina (1897–1978), Latvian writer
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Zenta may refers to: * Battle of Zenta, a battle on 11 September 1697 in which the Ottoman Empire suffered an ultimate defeat :* Senta, a municipality in Vojvodina, Serbia, known as Zenta in other languages, from which the battle took its name *Martyrs of Zenta: Roman Catholic priests Pedro Ortiz de Zárate (1622–1683) and Giovanni Antonio Solinas (1643–1683) * ''Zenta''-class cruiser, class of warships of Austro-Hungarian Navy ** SMS ''Zenta'', the lead ship of the class *Zenta Gastl-Kopp (born 1933), German hurdle runner *Zenta Mauriņa Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive.* Biography Born to doctor Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christa Meves
Christa Meves (née Mittelstaedt; born 4 March 1925) is a German psychotherapist and writer. Early life and education Meves was born in 1925 in Neumünster. After studying geography and philosophy at the Universities of Breslau and Kiel, she passed her state examination in Hamburg, where she also studied psychology. In 1962 she completed her additional training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Psychotherapeutic Institute in Göttingen. In 1992 she received state recognition. She is a member of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Psychotherapists. Career She works in Uelzen where she has authored more than 100 books, which have been translated into up 13 languages. From 1978 to 2006 she was co-editor of the weekly newspaper ''Rheinischer Merkur''. Meves is also the author of the right-wing Catholic paper '' Die Tagespost''. Christa developed her own concept on the basis of the neo-analytical drive theory and the instinct theory of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Von Habsburg
Otto von Habsburg (german: Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius, hu, Ferenc József Ottó Róbert Mária Antal Károly Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Lajos Gaetan Pius Ignác; 20 November 1912 4 July 2011), was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in November 1918. In 1922, he became the pretender to the former thrones, head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece upon the death of his father. He resigned as Sovereign of the Golden Fleece in 2000 and as head of the Imperial House in 2007. The eldest son of Charles I and IV, the last emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Otto was born as ''Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg'', third in line to the thrones, as Archduke Otto of Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Schelsky
Helmut Schelsky (14 October 1912 – 24 February 1984), was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s. Biography Schelsky was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He turned to social philosophy and even more to sociology, as elaborated at the University of Leipzig by Hans Freyer (the " Leipzig School"). Having earned his doctorate in 1935 (thesis r. ''The theory of community in the 1796 natural law by Fichte''), in 1939 he qualified as a lecturer ("''Habilitation''") with a thesis on the political thought of Thomas Hobbes at the University of Königsberg. He was called up in 1941, so did not take up his first chair of Sociology at the (then German) Reichsuniversität Straßburg in 1944. After the fall of the Third Reich in 1945, Schelsky joined the German Red Cross and formed its effective ''Suchdienst'' (service to trace down missing persons). In 1949 he became a Professor at the Hamburg "Hochschule für Arbeit und Politik", in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Habe
Hans Habe (born János Békessy; 12 February 1911, Budapest – 29 September 1977, Locarno) was a Hungarian and American writer and newspaper publisher. From 1941, he held United States citizenship. He was also known by such pseudonyms as Antonio Corte, Frank Richard, Frederick Gert, John Richler, Hans Wolfgang, and Alexander Holmes. Life Early years Habe was born as János Békessy in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His parents, Imre Békessy and Bianca Marton, were of Jewish origin but converted to the Christian (Protestant) faith. After World War I the family moved to Vienna where his father published one of the first daily tabloids, ''Die Stunde'' (''The Hour''), from 1923 to 1926. János was educated at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium between 1921 and 1929. Afterwards he started to study Law and German Literature at Heidelberg, but returned soon to Vienna due to the rapidly growing extreme anti-Semitism in Germany. Newspaperman In 1930 he began to wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Löwenthal
Gerhard Löwenthal (8 December 1922 in Berlin – 6 December 2002 in Wiesbaden) was a prominent German journalist, human rights activist and author. He presented the '' ZDF-Magazin'', a news magazine of ZDF which highlighted human rights abuses in communist-ruled Eastern Europe, from 1969 to 1987. Löwenthal, who was known as a staunch anticommunist, was president of the Germany Foundation from 1977 to 1994. He was Jewish and was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during Nazi rule. After the war, he chose to remain in his native country and went on to study medicine. He also worked as a reporter for RIAS, before he became one of the first students at the Free University of Berlin. He considered himself "a man of the center" ("ein Mann der Mitte") and lamented the ever increasing trend towards left in the West German political life, which made him look like an arch-conservative. His father-in-law was CDU politician and minister Ernst Lemmer. The Gerhard Löwenthal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Steinbuch
Karl W. Steinbuch (June 15, 1917 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – June 4, 2005 in Ettlingen) was a German computer scientist, cyberneticist, and electrical engineer. He was an early and influential researcher of German computer science, and was the developer of the Lernmatrix, an early implementation of artificial neural networks. Steinbuch also wrote about the societal implications of modern media. Biography Steinbuch studied at the University of Stuttgart and in 1944 he received his PhD in physics. In 1948 he joined Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL, part of the ITT group) in Stuttgart, as a computer design engineer and later as a director of research and development, where he filed more than 70 patents. There Steinbuch completed the first European fully transistorized computer, the ER 56 marketed by SEL. In 1958 he became professor and director of the institute of technology for information processingITIV of the University of Karlsruhe, where he retired in 1980. In 1967 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Maksimov (writer)
Vladimir Yemelyanovich Maksimov (russian: Владимир Емельянович Максимов, born Lev Alekseyevich Samsonov, Лев Алексеевич Самсонов; 27 November 1930 — 26 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, essayist and editor, one of the leading figures of the Soviet and post-Soviet dissident movement abroad.Vladimir Maksimov in the Krugosvet On-line Encyclopedia. Biography Born in Moscow into a working class family, Lev Samsonov spent an unhappy childhood in and out of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius D
Lucius ( el, Λούκιος ''Loukios''; ett, Luvcie) is a male given name derived from ''Lucius'' (abbreviated ''L.''), one of the small group of common Latin forenames (''praenomina'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius derives from Latin word ''Lux'' (gen. ''lucis''), meaning "light" (< ''*leuk-'' "brightness", Latin verb ''lucere'' "to shine"), and is a cognate of the name Lucas. Another etymology proposed is a derivation from ''Lauchum'' (or ''Lauchme'') meaning " |
Richard Von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi (16 November 1894 – 27 July 1972) was an Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher and Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. A pioneer of European integration, he served as the founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years. His parents were Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, and Mitsuko Aoyama, the daughter of an oil merchant, antiques-dealer and major landowner in Tokyo. His childhood name in Japan was Aoyama Eijiro. He became a Czechoslovak citizen in 1919 and then took French nationality from 1939 until his death. His first book, ''Pan-Europa'', was published in 1923 and contained a membership form for the Pan-Europa movement, which held its first Congress in 1926 in Vienna. In 1927, Aristide Briand was elected honorary president of the Pan-Europa movement. Public figures who attended Pan-Europa congresses included Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud. Coudenhove-Kalergi was the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Walden
Matthias is a name derived from the Greek Ματθαίος, in origin similar to Matthew. People Notable people named Matthias include the following: In religion: * Saint Matthias, chosen as an apostle in Acts 1:21–26 to replace Judas Iscariot * Matthias of Trakai (–1453), Lithuanian clergyman, bishop of Samogitia and of Vilnius * Matthias Flacius, Lutheran reformer * Matthias the Prophet, see Robert Matthews (religious impostor) Claimed to be the reincarnation of the original Matthias during the Second Great Awakening * Matthias F. Cowley, Latter-day Saint apostle In the arts: * Matthias Grünewald, highly regarded painter from the German Renaissance * Matthías Jochumsson, Icelandic poet * Matthias Lechner, German film art director * Matthias Paul (actor), German actor * Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor In nobility: * Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary * Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg dynasty) In music: * Matthias Bame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
