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Maltzahn
The House of Maltzahn or Maltzan is the name of an ancient German noble family of the counts and barons von Maltza(h)n which originated from Mecklenburg, Germany, whose members occupied many important positions in the Duchy of Mecklenburg and in its successor states, in the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire. The family owned large properties in Mecklenburg, where they are now once again based on several estates. Notable members *Maria von Maltzan (1909–1997), German Resistance member *Christian von Maltzahn, co-founder of Bruno Gmünder Verlag *Geoffrey von Maltzahn (born 1980), American biological engineer *Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn (1910–1953), German World War II flying ace *Heinrich von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenburg und Penzlin (1826–1874), German traveller *Helmuth von Maltzahn (1840–1923), German finance minister and politician *Hermann von Maltzan (1843–1891), German malacologist *Joseph von Maltzahn (born 1978), British rower *Kathleen Maltzahn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Freiherr Von Maltzahn
Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn (20 October 1910 – 24 June 1953) was a German military aviator and wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was credited with 68 enemy aircraft shot down in 497 combat missions. He claimed 34 aerial victories over the Eastern Front and 34 aerial victories over the Western Front, including one four-engine bomber. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, which was Germany's highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to Maltzahn. Early life and career Maltzahn was born on 20 October 1910 in Wodarg, present-day a borough of Werder in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at the time a Province of Pomerania as part of the German Empire. According to Bryan Mark Rigg, Maltzahn was a quarter-Jew by the Nuremberg Laws. He was the third of six sons and twelve children in total of Gerhard von Maltzahn-Wodarg and his mother Helene von Borcke auf Demnitz und Millnitz. His father was the youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Maltzahn
Kathleen Maltzahn (born 19 September 1966) is an Australian author, academic and anti- Sex work activist. She is a former councillor for the City of Yarra and was the Australian Greens Victoria candidate for the state seat of Richmond in the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Victorian elections. Early life Maltzahn was born in Morwell, Victoria. She attended high school in Melbourne's inner-east, and completed her Higher School Certificate (HSC) in 1984. She commenced study at the University of Melbourne the following year, and completed her Bachelor of Arts in 1988, returning in 1996 to undertake a postgraduate diploma in women's studies.kathleenmaltzahn.com Professional life Prior to entering politics, Maltzahn's roles included Interim Director of the East Timor Human Rights Centre and Founding Director of Project Respect, an org ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Von Maltzahn
Geoffrey von Maltzahn (born July 22, 1980) is an American biological engineer and businessman in the biotechnology and life sciences industry who has founded a number of companies including Indigo Agriculture, Sana Biotechnology, Kaleido Biosciences, Seres Therapeutics, Axcella Health, Generate Biomedicines and Tessera Therapeutics. He has over 200 bioengineering and biotechnology patents and applications. Early life and education Geoffrey von Maltzahn was born in Arlington, Texas, and subsequently moved to Alexandria, Virginia where he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. He was awarded his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003, his Master of Science degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2005, and his PhD from the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. Career Von Maltzahn is a gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Von Maltzahn
Joseph von Maltzahn (born 2 August 1978 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is a British rower and Boat Race winner. Education Maltzahn was educated at Eton College where he took up the sport of rowing, Oxford Brookes University and Kellogg College, Oxford where he studied Architectural History. The Boat Race Whilst at Oxford University, Maltzahn was a member of Oxford University Boat Club and took part in the Boat Race in 2005. Both universities had extremely strong intakes that year, with Cambridge boasting several world champions and the Oxford crew including Olympic silver medallist Barney Williams. Oxford, with Maltzahn at four, won the epic contest by 2 lengths in a time of 16 minutes 42 minutes. International Rowing Career Maltzahn won his first senior international vest in 2001. He sat in the four seat of the Great Britain Eight, which finished fifth in the final of the Rowing World Championships in Lucerne. He stroked the Eight in 2002 at the championships in Seville. Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmuth Von Maltzahn
Helmuth Ludwig Wilhelm Freiherr von Maltzahn (6 January 1840 – 11 February 1923) was a German finance minister and a representative in the Reichstag. Maltzahn was born in Gültz in the Prussian Province of Pomerania. After finishing school he studied law in Erlangen, Heidelberg, and Berlin.Neidhardt Krauß, Egon Fischer: Unterwegs zu Burgen, Schlössern und Parkanlagen in Vorpommern. Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1991, , p. 98 He began his career as an assessor, but in 1867 he decided to dedicate himself to the administration of his own estate. In the years 1868 to 1872 he built '' Schloss Gültz'', a manor house in the classical style. Maltzahn participated in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) as a cavalry officer. In 1871 he became a member of the ''Reichstag'' for the constituency of Anklam-Demmin, and was made chairman of the household committee. In 1875, he received the title ''Freiherr''. From 1888 to 1893, he was Finance Minister of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortimer Von Maltzan
Joachim Karl Ludwig Mortimer Graf von Maltzan (or Maltzahn), Freiherr von Wartenberg und Penzlin (born 1793 at Schloss Lissa; died 1843 in Berlin) was a Prussian diplomat and Foreign Minister from 1841 to 1842. Maltzan was the son of the Count Joachim Alexander Kasimir Maltzahn and his wife Antoinie (''née'' Hoym). He himself married the Countess Auguste von der Goltz. Maltzan participated in the War of the Sixth Coalition as an officer in the Prussian Garde du Corps. Then he joined the diplomatic service. At first, he was a legation secretary in various embassies. Later he was the ''chargé d'affaires'' in Darmstadt and envoy to The Hague, Hannover and Vienna. Lastly, he had the rank of minister plenipotentiary. In 1841 Maltzan was made Prussian Foreign Minister. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense reproduced a report by Wilhelm von Humboldt, according to which King Frederick William IV Frederick William IV (german: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 17952 January 1861), the el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Von Maltzan
Maria Helene Françoise Izabel Gräfin von Maltzan, Freiin zu Wartenberg und Penzlin (; 25 March 1909 – 12 November 1997) was an German nobility, aristocrat who, as part of the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, saved the lives of many Jewish people in Berlin. Biography Countess Maria von Maltzahn, Maltzan was born into a wealthy noble family at :File:Milicz.jpg, Militsch Palace, Silesia, Germany (today Milicz, Poland) and was raised on the family's estate, the youngest of eight children. After completing grade school in Berlin in 1927, she decided to undertake studies in zoology at the University of Breslau, a rare occurrence for a girl during this time. Her family was strictly against the idea, but her teachers supported her and she got permission. In 1928, she enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Munich where she received her doctorate in natural sciences five years later. When the Macht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vollrath Von Maltzan
Vollrath von Maltzan Freiherr von Wartenberg und Penzlin (22 December 1899 – 22 December 1967) was West German ambassador to France from 1955 to 1958. Biography Vollrath von Maltzan belonged to a long line of German nobility from Western Pomerania and Mecklenburg. His father left the Imperial German Army with the rank of captain, to manage his property in Odratzheim in Lower Alsace. His mother, Hermine née Rosenfeld, came from a middle-class background in Berlin. Vollrath von Maltzan went to school in Strasbourg, which then belonged to Germany. He served as an army officer in the First World War and then studied law at Heidelberg University He was granted a doctorate in 1922 and became an ''Assessor'' in Berlin. In 1925 he joined the German Foreign Office, where his father Adolf Georg Baron von Maltzan, a former ambassador, was head of the Oriental Department. He attained the rank of consul in 1927 and was immediately appointed Secretary to the minister, Gustav Stresemann, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Von Maltzan
Hermann Friedrich Freiherr von Maltzan (18 December 1843, Rostock – 19 February 1891, Berlin) was a German malacologist known for his work in the field of conchology. A former law student at the University of Rostock, in 1864–65 he undertook an extended scientific journey to France, Spain, Italy and Egypt; a trip in which he collected numerous zoological specimens and expanded his malacological knowledge. In 1879, he traveled to Portugal, where he conducted extensive zoological research in the Algarve region. Afterwards, he continued his research in western Africa (especially French Senegambia), followed by travels to Greece, Crete and Asia Minor. After his return to Germany, he took up residence in Darmstadt and later Berlin (since 1885). In 1866 he founded the ''Maltzan`sches Naturhistorisches Museums für Mecklenburg'' ("Maltzaneum"), a natural history museum that the present-day "Müritzeum", located near the city of Waren, traces its origins to. He was the binomial a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Von Maltzan, Baron Zu Wartenburg Und Penzlin
Heinrich Karl Eckard Helmuth von Maltzan (September 6, 1826– February 23, 1874), also known as Heinrich Eckhard Carl Helmuth von Maltzan and by his title Baron of Wartenburg and Penzlin, was a German traveller. Life Heinrich von Maltzan was born near Dresden. He studied law at Heidelberg, but on account of ill health spent much of his time from 1850 in travel. He was a passionate traveller as well as an attentive observer and a good storyteller. Succeeding to his father's property in 1852, he extended the range of his journeys to Morocco and other parts of Barbary. Before his return home in 1854, he had also visited Egypt, Palestine, and other countries of the Levant. In 1856-1857 he was again in Algeria; in 1858 he reached the cities of Morocco; and in 1860 he succeeded in performing the pilgrimage to Mecca, which he afterwards described in ''Meine Wallfahrt nach Mekka'' (Leipzig, 1865). He had to flee for his life to Jidda without visiting Medina. He then visited Aden an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno's (German Company)
Bruno's GmbH is a German retailer of products targeted toward gay men; it was originally founded in 1981 as Bruno Gmünder Verlag, a book publishing house. Bruno Gmünder Verlag was dissolved in 2017, with the retail division becoming Bruno's and the publishing division sold to the publishing company Salzgeber & Co Medien GmbH in September 2018. History Bruno Gmünder Verlag was founded in Berlin in 1981 by Bruno Gmünder and Christian von Maltzahn. The publishing house was best known for '' Männer'', a gay male lifestyle magazine, and the '' Spartacus International Gay Guide'', the best-selling travel guidebook for gay men in the world. Bruno Gmünder had purchased the latter in 1986 following financial difficulties with the former owner John D. Stamford, as well as increasing evidence that the Guide was being used by paedophiles Pedophilia ( alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Von Maltzahn
Bruno's GmbH is a German retailer of products targeted toward gay men; it was originally founded in 1981 as Bruno Gmünder Verlag, a book publishing house. Bruno Gmünder Verlag was dissolved in 2017, with the retail division becoming Bruno's and the publishing division sold to the publishing company Salzgeber & Co Medien GmbH in September 2018. History Bruno Gmünder Verlag was founded in Berlin in 1981 by Bruno Gmünder and Christian von Maltzahn. The publishing house was best known for '' Männer'', a gay male lifestyle magazine, and the '' Spartacus International Gay Guide'', the best-selling travel guidebook for gay men in the world. Bruno Gmünder had purchased the latter in 1986 following financial difficulties with the former owner John D. Stamford, as well as increasing evidence that the Guide was being used by paedophiles Pedophilia ( alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
