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Rohr (surname)
Rohr is the surname of: Military * Franz Freiherr Rohr von Denta (1854-1927), last commander of the Austro-Hungarian First Army * Davis C. Rohr (1929– ), Major General in the US Air Force Sports * Alain Rohr (born 1971), Swiss hurdler * Bernd Rohr (1937-2022), German cyclist * Billy Rohr (born 1945), baseball player *Gernot Rohr (born 1953), German football player and manager * Jean-Philippe Rohr (born 1961), French footballer * Les Rohr (1946–2020), baseball player * Maximilian Rohr (born 1995), German footballer * Nadine Rohr (born 1977), Swiss pole vaulter *Oskar Rohr (1912–1988), German footballer Other * George Rohr (born 1954), American businessman and philanthropist * Jim Rohr CEO of PNC Financial Services *John Rohr (1934–2011), political science professor at Virginia Tech *Moritz von Rohr (1868-1940) optical scientist at Carl Zeiss in Jena *Richard Rohr (1943- ) Franciscan priest *Sami Rohr, Jewish philanthropist; see Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature *Tony R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Freiherr Rohr Von Denta
Franz Freiherr Rohr von Denta (30 October 1854 – 9 December 1927) was an List of Austro-Hungarian Field Marshals, Austro-Hungarian field marshal and field commander who served as the last commander of the First Army (Austria-Hungary), Austro-Hungarian First Army. Early life Born in Arad, Romania, Arad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (modern-day Romania), in 1854 as Franz Denta, son of an army NCO, he became a Army ranks and insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Army, lieutenant in the ''3 Galizisches Uhlanen-Regiment Erzherzog Carl'' in 1876 upon graduating from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener-Neustadt. He later attended the Austrian Kriegsschule (Austria), War College. Having attained the rank of Army ranks and insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Army, Colonel, he was appointed Chief of Staff of II Corps in September 1897, a position in which he served until April 1901. By 1903 Denta was commanding the 73 Landwehr-Brigade at Bratislava, Pressburg/Pozsony (modern-day Bratis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rohr
George Rohr is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and President of NCH Capital Inc, a private equity firm. Education and personal life Rohr was born in 1954 in Bogota, Colombia to Sami Rohr and Charlotte Rohr. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. As an undergraduate he was President of the Harvard Lampoon during its 100th anniversary year in 1976. He and his wife Pamela L. Rohr live in New York City and Bal Harbour, Florida. They have four children. NCH Capital Since 1993 the NCH group of funds has been investing across asset classes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on behalf of their institutional clients. Rohr began investing in the region shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and was among the earliest Western participants in the privatization opportunities offered by several of the region’s markets. In addition to its investments in real-estate, private equity and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Rohr
Tony Rohr (born 1940) is an Irish actor. Career Rohr played Grandad in '' The Lakes'' and Solomon Featherstone in ''Middlemarch''. He has also appeared in ''The Bill'', ''The Long Good Friday'', '' McVicar'', '' Softly, Softly'', ''Crown Court'', '' The Sweeney'', ''Casualty'', ''Lovejoy'', ''I Hired a Contract Killer'', '' Cracker'', '' The Vet'', ''Father Ted'', '' Waking the Dead'', '' Hustle'' and ''Inspector George Gently''. He played the railway station master in the 2010 film ''Leap Year''. He played the IRA Brigade Commander in Yorkshire TV's ''Harry's Game.'' He recently played Anthony, the estranged father of the title character, Derek, in the series of the same name written and directed by Ricky Gervais. Personal life He has a daughter Louise with actress Pauline Collins Pauline Collins (born 3 September 1940) is a British actress who first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' (1971–1973) and its spin-off, '' Thomas & Sarah'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously administered by the Jewish Book Council, it is now given in association with the National Library of Israel. History In 2006, the family of Jewish philanthropist Sami Rohr honored his lifelong love of Jewish learning and great books by establishing the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature on his 80th birthday. The annual award, alternating between fiction and non-fiction, seeks to promote writings of Jewish interest, and to encourage the examination of Jewish values among "emerging" writers. The $100,000 Prize honors an author whose work demonstrates potential for future contribution to the world of Jewish literature. All winners, Choice Award recipients, finalists, judges and advisors are Fellows in the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute. The winner and finalists are honored at an awards ceremony for fiction in New York; th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr, (born 1943) is an American Franciscan priest and writer on spirituality based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. In 2011, PBS called him "one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world". Life and ministry Rohr was born in Kansas in 1943. He received his Master of Theology degree in 1970 from the University of Dayton. He entered the Franciscans in 1961 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. Rohr founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1971 and the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1986, where he serves as founding director and academic dean of the Living School for Action and Contemplation. The curriculum of Rohr's school is founded on seven themes developed by Rohr and explored in his book ''Yes, And....'' In his 2016 book ''The Divine Dance'', Rohr suggests that the top-down hierarchy of western Christianity s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Zeiss AG
Carl Zeiss AG (), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the foundation for today's multi-national company. The current company emerged from a reunification of Carl Zeiss companies in East and West Germany with a consolidation phase in the 1990s. ZEISS is active in four business segments with approximately equal revenue (Industrial Quality and Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) in almost 50 countries, has 30 production sites and around 25 development sites worldwide. Carl Zeiss AG is the holding of all subsidiaries within Zeiss Group, of which Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is the only one that is traded at the stock market. Carl Zeiss AG is owned by the foundation Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The Zeiss Group has its headquarters in southern Germany, in the smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moritz Von Rohr
Moritz von Rohr (4 April 1868 – 20 June 1940) was an optical scientist at Carl Zeiss in Jena, Germany. A street in Jena is named after him: Moritz-von-Rohr-Straße, near Carl-Zeiss-Promenade and Otto-Schott-Straße. Life Moritz von Rohr was born in Lonzyn near Hohensalza, then part of the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen, but now in Poland and known as Łążyn, near Inowrocław. He obtained a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Berlin in 1892. Inventions Von Rohr is usually credited with the design of the first aspheric lenses for eyeglasses. He invented the eyeglass lens designs that became the Zeiss Punktal lenses. He also developed a method of computing depth of field from a camera's entrance pupil location and diameter, without reference to focal length and f-number In optics, the f-number of an optical system such as a camera lens is the ratio of the system's focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil ("clear aperture").Smith, Warren ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rohr
John Anthony Rohr (July 31, 1934 – August 10, 2011)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American political scientist who was Professor Emeritus at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S. Constitution in relationship to civil servants and public administration. He also received the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2002 for contributions to the literature and leadership of public administration. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and Fellow of the National Academy of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. One of Rohr's argument is that the Constitution pervades American society. Rohr wrote the book, ''Prophets Without Honor,'' which talked about the issue of Selective Conscientious Objection to war, detailing both the pros and cons of the possibility of such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PNC Financial Services
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (stylized as PNC) is an American bank holding company and financial services corporation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its banking subsidiary, PNC Bank, operates in 27 U.S. state, states and the District of Columbia, with 2,629 branch (banking), branches and 9,523 Automated teller machine, ATMs. PNC Bank is on the list of largest banks in the United States by assets and is one of the largest banks by number of branches, deposits, and number of ATMs. The company also provides financial services such as asset management, wealth management, estate planning, loan servicing, and information processing. PNC is one of the largest Small Business Administration lenders and one of the largest credit card issuers. It also provides asset-based lending to private equity firms and Middle-market company, middle market companies. PNC operates one of the largest treasury management businesses and the second largest lead arranger of asset-based loan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Rohr
James E. Rohr (born October 18, 1948) is former Chairman of PNC Financial Services Group (commonly known as PNC Bank) and former CEO. Rohr served as CEO from May 2000 to April 2013 and as Chairman from May 2001 to April 2014, both times taking over for Tom O'Brien. He is currently chairman of the Carnegie Mellon University Board of Trustees. Early life Rohr was the grandson of an Alsatians (people), Alsatian (then Germany) immigrant to America, a cook in a hotel, who married the hotel's Irish laundress and opened his own restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio. Rohr's father, also a Cleveland restaurateur died when Rohr was still in grade school. Rohr graduated from Cleveland's Saint Ignatius High School (Cleveland), Saint Ignatius High School and from the University of Notre Dame in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. Two years later, in 1972, Rohr earned an MBA degree from Ohio State University. Rohr's wife, Sharon, is from Chagrin Falls. Professional life Prior to becoming Chairman & CEO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Rohr
Oskar Rohr (24 April 1912 – 8 November 1988) was a German footballer and one of the first footballers to play abroad in a foreign league. He was born in Mannheim, Germany. Early career Rohr, known primarily by his nickname "Ossi", began his career in the 1920s as a striker for hometown clubs ''FC Phönix Mannheim'' and later for VfR Mannheim. He was quickly marked as a talented striker with a natural instinct for scoring goals. Fueled by the desire to display his talents at a higher level, he signed with FC Bayern Munich in 1930. In his first season with FC Bayern, Rohr and his teammates barely missed out on the final round of the German Championship. In his second season with the club, FC Bayern went on to defeat Eintracht Frankfurt in the final and claim its first German Championship with a 2–0 victory. Ossi Rohr, who scored one of the two goals in the match against Eintracht, was German Champion at the young age of 20 years. The following year, Bayern's fortunes wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austro-Hungarian First Army
The 1st Army (german: k.u.k. 1. Armee) was a field army-level command in the ground forces of Austria-Hungary during World War I. The army fought in Galicia and Russian Poland in 1914–15 before being briefly dissolved in the summer of 1916. Shortly afterwards, it was reformed and sent to fight in the Romanian Campaign for the next two years. The 1st Army was demobilized in April 1918 due to its heavy losses, following Romania's surrender. History The 1st Army was formed in 1914 as part of Austria-Hungary's mobilization following its declaration of war on Serbia and Russia, carrying out the prewar plans for the formation of six field armies. Just as all Austro-Hungarian field armies, it consisted of a headquarters and several corps, along with some unattached units.John Dixon-NuttalTHE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY 1914-18. Chapter 4: The Army in the Field/ref> The 1st Army was put under the command of General of the Cavalry Viktor Dankl von Krasnik and was composed of the I, V, and X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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