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Kühn (surname)
Kühn is a surname of German origin, derived from the Old German name Conrad. House of Names. Retrieved 10 November 2011. It may refer to one of the following people: * Anke Kühne née Kühn (b. 1981), German hockey player * (b. 1967), German bobsledder * Christian Kühn (b. 1979), German politician * (b. 1973), German mathematician * |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Kühn (writer)
Johannes Kühn (born 19 November 1991) is a German biathlete. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in Salzburg, Austria, until May 2020, when the Federation moved to Anif, on the outskirts of the .... Olympic Games ''0 medal'' World Championships :''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.'' :''**The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.'' References External links * 1991 births Living people Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics German male biathletes Olympic biathletes of Germany People from Passau Sportspeople from Lower Bavaria 21st-century German people {{Germany-wintersport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kühne
Kühne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Business * August Kühne (1855–1932), German businessman, co-founder of Kuehne + Nagel * Alfred Kühne (1895–1981), son of August, German businessman * Klaus-Michael Kühne (born 1937), son of Alfred, German businessman, honorary chairman of Kühne + Nagel Sports * Anke Kühne (born 1981), German field hockey player * Frank Kühne (born 1961), German swimmer * Marc Kühne (born 1976), German bobsledder * Matthias Kühne (born 1987), German footballer * Rico Kühne (born 1982), German footballer * Rita Kühne (born 1947), former East German athlete * Simon Kühne (born 1994), Liechtensteiner footballer * Stefan Kühne (born 1980), German footballer Other people * Alfred von Kühne (1853-1945), German general during World War I * Eric Kuhne (1951–2016), American-born British architect * Friedrich Kühne (1870–1959), German film actor of the silent era * Hans Kühne (1880–1969), German chemist * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuhn
Kuhn is a surname of German origin. It may refer to the following: * Abraham Kuhn (banker) (1819–1892), German-American founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. * Abraham Kuhn (otolarynologist) (1838–1900), Alsatian otolaryngologist * Adam Kuhn (1741–1817), American naturalist and physicist * Albert Kuhn (1860–1934), Washington state pioneer and businessman * Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963), American scholar of mythology and linguistics * Annette Kuhn, British author, cultural historian, and educator * Anthony Kuhn, NPR correspondent in Beijing, China * Bob Kuhn, mayor of Glendora, California * Bradley M. Kuhn (born 1973), American free software activist * Bowie Kuhn (1926–2007), American baseball commissioner * Charles Kuhn (1892–1989), cartoonist * Charles L. Kuhn (1902-1985), American academic and art historian * Deanna Kuhn (born 1944), professor of psychology * Franz Kuhn (1884–1961), German lawyer and translator of Chinese novels * Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812–1881), Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfram Kühn
Wolfram Kühn (born 7 November 1952) is a retired German Navy Vizeadmiral. He served as Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr and Inspector of the Joint Support Service from 2006 to his retirement in 2012. Military career Kühn entered the Bundeswehr in 1972. After basic naval officer training, he studied Economics and Business Administration at the Bundeswehr University of Munich. After graduating in 1977 he served on the Destroyer Schleswig-Holstein as a CIC officer. In 1979 he was promoted to ''Kapitänleutnant'' (captain lieutenant) and assigned to the Territorial Command of Schleswig-Holstein as Adjutant of the commander, who was also the highest German responsible within NATO's Allied Forces Northern Europe (AFNORTH). From 1982 to 1984 Kühn served as department head of the supply department on Frigate Rheinland-Pfalz. Selected for the Admiral Staff Officer Course at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr it was during this course that he was promoted to ''Korvettenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkmar Kühn
Volkmar Kühn (born 27 July 1942, Königsee ) is a German sculptor. profile at Kontrapost gallery Many of his works are exhibited in public spaces, especially in Gera. Heidecksburg
Heidecksburg is a Baroque palace in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, and served as the residence of the princes to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. It is located prominently approximately 60 m above the old town. After a fire in 1735 and its reconstruction, it has ... museum acquired 60 of his bronze sculptures in 2015.
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Susanne Kühn
Susanne Kühn (born 1969 in Leipzig, Germany) is a contemporary German painter. Susanne Kühn studied painting and graphic art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in Germany (1990–1995). Between 1995 -1998 she lived and worked in New York and completed postgraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College (1995–1996). In 1998 she moved to Boston. In 2001-02 she was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Since 2002, Susanne Kühn lives and works in Freiburg i. B. and Nürnberg, Germany. Since 2015 she is a professor for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. adbk-nuernberg.de. Retrieved 12 August 2015. Grants and Fellowships ...
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Stephan Kühn
Stephan Kühn (born 6 September 1979) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony from 2009 until 2020. Since 2020, he has been serving as part of the city administration of Dresden. Early life and education After graduating from the Marie Curie Gymnasium Dresden in 1998, Kühn did civilian service with the Green League in Dresden. From 1999 he studied sociology at the Technical University of Dresden. As part of his studies, he worked on the second Dresden Children's Study under Karl Lenz. He graduated in 2008. Career Kühn subsequently worked as a press officer for the Green Party in Saxony. Kühn became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Von Kühn
Christiane Wilhelmine Sophie von Kühn (17 March 1782 – 19 March 1797) was the Romantic interest, love interest and eventual fiancée of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg, known simply as Novalis. Her image famously appears in Novalis’ ''Hymns to the Night'', a foundational text of the literary movement known as German Romanticism. Although Novalis's love for Sophie has assumed mythic proportions, their time together was short and uneventful. The two met on 17 November 1794 when Novalis was twenty-two and Sophie was only twelve. They became engaged on Sophie's thirteenth birthday 17 March 1795. Sophie became sick in November 1795, and her sickness continued until her death at the age of 15 in March 1797. The loss of Sophie brought about a deep period of mourning and suffering in Novalis' life. Even so, he became engaged to Julie von Charpentier in December 1798. The depth of Sophie's love for Novalis is uncertain given her young age. Some of he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Kühn
Rolf Kühn (29 September 1929 – 18 August 2022) was a German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. He was the older brother of the pianist Joachim Kühn. He lived in the United States from 1956 to 1959. John Hammond favourably compared him with Benny Goodman. In 2008, he founded band with Christian Lillinger, Ronny Graupe, and Johannes Fink. Discography As leader * ''Streamline'' (Vanguard, 1956) * ''Rolf Kuhn and His Sound of Jazz'' (Urania, 1960) * ''Rolf Kuhn feat. Klaus Doldinger'' (Brunswick, 1962) * ''Solarius'' (Amiga, 1965) * ''Nana Und Rolf in Action: Make Love!'' (Intercord, 1969) * ''R. K. Sextet'' (Intercord, 1969) * ''Devil in Paradise'' (MPS/BASF, 1971) * ''The Day After'' (MPS, 1972) * ''Connection '74'' (MPS/BASF, 1974) * ''Total Space'' (MPS/BASF, 1975) * ''Symphonic Swampfire'' (MPS, 1979) * ''Cucu Ear'' (MPS, 1980) * ''Don't Split'' (L+R, 1983) * ''As Time Goes By'' (Blue Flame, 1991) * ''Big Band Connection'' (Blue Flame, 1993) * ''Affairs'' (Intuition, 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Othmar Kühn
Othmar Kühn (5 November 1892 – 26 March 1969) was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist at the University of Vienna who was a member of the Nazi Party, serving in the Wehrmacht as a military geologist during World War II. He worked mainly on Cretaceous stratigraphy and began a catalogue of the fossils of Austria, ''Fossilium catalogus Austriae''. Life and work Kühn was born in Vienna in a business family. After schooling, he joined a business school and worked at a brewery from 1914 before joining the University of Vienna. He served in Italy during World War I and was wounded, receiving a medal for bravery. He studied botany under Richard Wettstein and Carl Diener, receiving a doctorate in 1919. He then worked as a school teacher while also spending time at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He became a member of the NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kühn
Michael Kühn (born 6 May 1963) is a retired German football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhn, Michael 1963 births Living people German men's footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players VfL Bochum players VfL Bochum II players Footballers from Bochum Men's association football midfielders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
