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Oberlander
Oberlander or Oberländer is a German surname, and may refer to: People *Adolf Oberländer (1845-1923), German caricaturist *Andy Oberlander (1905-1968), American football player *Cornelia Oberlander (1921–2021), Canadian landscape architect *Donna Oberlander (born 1970), American politician *Fred Oberlander (1911-1966), Austrian/British/Canadian wrestler *Helmut Oberlander (born 1924), Ukrainian Canadian who served as an interpreter in the Einsatzgruppen *Jonathan Oberlander, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Jon Oberlander, Professor of Epistemics, University of Edinburgh *Peter Oberlander (born 1922), Canadian architect *Theodor Oberländer (1905-1998), Nazi activist, German politician, military leader, and agricultural scientist Other *The South German Coldblood breed of horse (also known as the Oberland breed) *Oberlander Jews, a group of Jews originating from the Oberland region of Hungary See also * Oberland (other) Oberland is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelia Oberlander
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (20 June 1921 – 22 May 2021) was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver. During her career she contributed to the designs of many high-profile buildings in both Canada and the United States, including the Robson Square and the Law Courts Complex in Vancouver, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Chancery in Washington D.C., the Library Square at the Vancouver Public Library, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly Building in Yellowknife. Family and early life Oberlander was born at Muelheim-Ruhr, Germany, on 20 June 1921, the daughter of Beate (Jastrow) and Franz Hahn. She was the niece of educationalist Kurt Hahn, the founder of Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and UWC Atlantic College in the UK; as well as the niece of Elisabet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Oberlander
Helmut Oberlander (15 February 1924 – 20 September 2021) was a naturalized Canadian citizen who was a member of the ''Einsatzgruppen'' death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Oberlander was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. Beginning in 1994, the Government of Canada made several attempts to revoke Oberlander's citizenship on the basis of his misrepresenting his involvement with Nazi war crimes. In 2017, after the fourth attempt by the government to strip him of his citizenship, he lost his appeal, as the Federal Court of Canada found this revocation "reasonable", and in 2019 the Federal Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed his motion to have his case re-opened. On 5 December 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear Oberlander's appeal, clearing the way for his deportation. In early 2020, however, Oberlander was still in Canada and had filed a new appeal against his planned deportation. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Oberlander
H. Peter Oberlander, (November 29, 1922 – December 27, 2008) was a Canadian architect and Canada's first professor of Urban and Regional Planning. Early life and education Born in Vienna, Austria, he settled in Britain with his family after fleeing the Anschluss in 1938. In 1940, he was deported to Canada where he was held in a series of internment camps. Presumed to be a "dangerous enemy alien", he was finally released in 1942, and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from McGill University in 1945. After McGill graduation in architecture, Oberlander was the first Canadian to obtain the Master of Urban Planning and subsequently a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Harvard University. Thus started a pioneer career in education and practice of community and regional planning. Teaching and research The impending post-war urban development boom impelled Oberlander to plead for the need to educate urban planners in Canada, with explicit federal government fellowship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Oberlander
Andrew James "Swede" Oberlander (February 17, 1905 – January 1, 1968) was an American football player and coach. He was an All-American halfback for Dartmouth College's Indians undefeated and national championship football team in 1925. Oberlander was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1954. Dartmouth College Oberlander was converted to halfback from the tackle position, and had a "terrific straight arm". In 1925, Oberlander passed for 14 touchdowns and ran for 12. Dartmouth defeated Harvard 32–9, its best victory to date over the Crimson. In a 62–13 victory over Cornell, Oberlander had 477 yards in total offense, including six touchdown passes, a Dartmouth record which still stands. He was responsible for some 500 yards of total offense. Cornell coach Gil Dobie responded "We won the game 13–0, passing is not football." The season closed with a 33–7 victory over defending Big Ten champion Chicago. Oberlander threw three touchdowns. Coach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberländer
Oberlander or Oberländer is a German surname, and may refer to: People *Adolf Oberländer (1845-1923), German caricaturist *Andy Oberlander (1905-1968), American football player *Cornelia Oberlander (1921–2021), Canadian landscape architect *Donna Oberlander (born 1970), American politician *Fred Oberlander (1911-1966), Austrian/British/Canadian wrestler *Helmut Oberlander (born 1924), Ukrainian Canadian who served as an interpreter in the Einsatzgruppen *Jonathan Oberlander, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Jon Oberlander, Professor of Epistemics, University of Edinburgh *Peter Oberlander (born 1922), Canadian architect *Theodor Oberländer (1905-1998), Nazi activist, German politician, military leader, and agricultural scientist Other *The South German Coldblood breed of horse (also known as the Oberland breed) *Oberlander Jews, a group of Jews originating from the Oberland region of Hungary See also * Oberland (other) Oberland is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Oberlander
Donna Oberlander is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, she was elected to her first term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in November 2008. She serves as the majority whip. She has been appointed to the Rules Committee and the Committee on Committees. Career Before she was elected to the House, Oberlander served as legislative aide to former State Representative Fred McIlhattan. She left that office to help local businesses grow and expand in Clarion County before being elected to the Clarion County Board of Commissioners in 2004. Committee assignments * Committee On Committees * Rules Personal Oberlander graduated from Clarion University with a bachelor's degree in political science. Upon graduation, she married her high school sweetheart, a United States Marine stationed in Quantico, Virginia. While in Quantico, Oberlander worked for a government contractor tracking radio communications for Navy ships. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Oberlander
Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987. Research Oberlander described three main strands in his research: intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research on personality types in emails with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g., in research with Keith Stenning Keith Stenning is a cognitive scientist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. He attended RGS High Wycombe, High Wycombe Royal Grammar School (U.K.) from 1959 to 1965, where he won an Open Scholarship in Natural Sc ... on diagrammatic reasoning). Honours In March 2016 Oberlander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Oberlander
Fred Oberlander (23 May 1911 – 6 July 1996) was an Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He won the World Championships in 1935. Oberlander was offered a chance to compete for Austria at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, but declined. He represented Great Britain as team captain at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Oberlander later emigrated to Canada, where he founded the Canadian Maccabi Association. He won a silver medal in wrestling at the 1950 Maccabiah Games, and the heavyweight wrestling title at the 1953 Maccabiah Games and was named Outstanding Jewish World Athlete. Hall of Fame Oberlander was named to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1991. Family His son Ron served as President and CEO of Abitibi Consolidated Abitibi Consolidated Inc. was a Canadian pulp and paper company based in Montreal, Quebec. Abitibi-Consolidated was formed from the merger of Abitibi-Price Inc. and Stone Consolidated Corp. on May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberlander Jews
Oberlander Jews ( yi, אויבערלאנד, translit. ''Oyberland'', "Highland"; he, גליל עליון, translit. ''Galil E'lion'', "Upper Province") were the Jews who inhabited the northwestern regions of the historical Kingdom of Hungary, which are contemporary western Slovakia and Burgenland. "Oberland", in this context, is a Hungarian-Jewish historiographic term, unrelated to the territory of Upper Hungary (Oberungarn, sometimes Oberland).Menahem Keren-Kratz. ''Cultural Life in Maramaros County (Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia): Literature, Press and Jewish Thought, 1874-1944''. Ph.D dissertation submitted to the Senate of Bar-Ilan University, 2008. OCLC 352874902. pp. 23-24. Its origin lies in the immigration pattern of Jews into the country during the 18th century. Those arriving from Austria and Moravia settled in the adjacent counties of the northwest, mainly from Trencsén County, Trencsén to Sopron County, Sopron, and gradually spread further; however, a large swath in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Oberlander
Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of the 2003 book ''The Political Life of Medicare''.Rosemary A. Stevens (April 1, 2004).Book Review: The political life of Medicare ''Med Hist.'' 48(2): 269–270. References External linksUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Jonathan Oberlander — ''Fresh Air'' Living people University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty American political scientists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-polisci-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Oberländer
Theodor Oberländer (1 May 1905 – 4 May 1998) was an Ostforschung scientist and German Nazi official and politician, who after the Second World War served as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War in West Germany from 1953 to 1960, and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1953 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1965. Oberländer earned a doctorate in agriculture in 1929 and a second doctorate in economics in 1930. He spent time in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s, including as an employee of DRUSAG (), a German company involved in developing Soviet agriculture in cooperation with the Soviet government. Subsequently, he became active in '' Ostforschung'', area studies of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states, Poland and other countries of Eastern and Central Europe, advocating elimination of Jews and subjugation of Polish people in Poland, which he characterised in his writings as having "eight million inhabitants too many". In 1933, he became D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberland (other)
Oberland is a German language, German term and means Highlands. Consequently, it may refer to several places: Germany *Oberland am Rennsteig, Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany *Vogtländisches Oberland, Greiz, Thuringia, Germany *In East Prussia, the Elbląg Canal was named the ''Oberländischer Kanal'' (Oberland Canal) *Bavarian Oberland, the Oberland region in Bavaria Switzerland *Berner Oberland, canton of Bern, Switzerland *Zürcher Oberland, canton of Zürich, Switzerland *Canton of Oberland, a canton of the former Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) *''Zürcher Oberländer'', a Swiss newspaper established in 1870 *Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland, a heritage railway association in Zurich Austria *Tyrolean Oberland, fourth region of Tyrol Hungary *Oberlander Jews, who originate from the Oberland region of Hungary *Upper Hungary, Hungarian term for historical northern Hungary, now mostly Slovakia Liechtenstein *Oberland (electoral district), meaning "upper land," is one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
