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Rieger
Rieger and de Reiger are surnames. Notable people with the surname include: *August Rieger *Bernhard Rieger, German Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church * Durhane Wong-Rieger, Canadian physician *Erich Rieger, German astrophysicist * František Ladislav Rieger, Czech politician and leader of nationalist movement *Fritz Rieger, German conductor *Gottfried Rieger (1764–1855), Austrian composer * James E. Rieger, American lawyer and US Army officer * Janusz Rieger, Polish linguist *Joerg Rieger (born 1963), American professor *Jürgen Rieger, German lawyer and Holocaust denier * Ladislav Svante Rieger, Czech mathematician *Max Rieger (born 1946), German alpine skier * Nicole Rieger, German pole-vaulter *Sabine Günther née Rieger, East German athlete * Silvia Rieger, German athlete See also * De Reiger, a smock mill in Nijetrijne, Friesland, Netherlands * De Dans van de Reiger, a 1966 Dutch film * Rieger Orgelbau, Austrian organ-building firm * Rieger–Kloss Rieger–Kloss is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joerg Rieger
Joerg Michael Rieger (born 1963) is a German professor of Christian theology whose work emphasizes economic justice and political movements. Rieger is also an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church. Life and career Born on August 3, 1963, Rieger is Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Distinguished Professor of Theology at the Divinity School and the Graduate Program of Religion at Vanderbilt University. Previously he was the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. He received a Master of Divinity degree from the , Germany, a Master of Theology degree from Duke Divinity School, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in religion and ethics from Duke University. Rieger is the author and editor of more than 20 books and over 135 academic articles, which have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Korean, and Chinese. Rieger is editor of the academic book series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rieger Orgelbau
Rieger Orgelbau is an Austrian firm of organ builders, known generally as Rieger. The firm was founded by Franz Rieger. From 1873 it was known as Rieger & Söhne, and from 1879 as Gebrüder Rieger, after his sons took over. At the end of World War II, the firm was nationalised by the Czech government and merged with another workshop as Rieger-Kloss. The Rieger tradition was also continued by the owners and workers of the original firm, who moved to Austria and founded a new workshop as "Rieger Orgelbau". History Franz Rieger Franz Rieger was born in Zossen ( Sosnová) in Austrian Silesia on 13 December 1812, and was the son of a gardener. He received a good education and decided to become an organ builder, to which end he travelled to Vienna, where he was apprenticed to organ-builder Joseph Seybert. His apprenticeship and time as a journeyman being completed, he returned home in 1844 as a master organ-builder. He married Rosalia Schmidt, with whom he had nine children, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Ladislav Rieger
František Ladislav Rieger (10 December 1818 – 3 March 1903) was a Czech politician and publicist made famous for his leadership of the early Czech nationalist movement. Early life Rieger was born into the household of a miller in the town of Semily in northern Bohemia. His departure from this rural environment came with his enrollment in Prague University where he was to become acquainted with the nationalist fervor among students there. Rieger studied at the university to become a lawyer and also received a strong education in economic science, a subject that would later be the topic of much of his published political literature. He and his fellow "national awakeners" found inspiration for their patriotism in the Polish uprising of 1830. Many political Polish refugees fled to Prague where they shared their ideas with the young Czech nationalists there. Rieger's sympathy for the Poles was so that he was even arrested for hiding a refugee in his room at the university. The Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Rieger
Janusz Andrzej Rieger (born 20 September 1934) is a Polish linguist and slavist specializing in the history of Polish language in Kresy, professor of the humanities, member of the Warsaw Scientific Society. He worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies and at the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and lectured at the University of Warsaw. Biography He was born in 1934 in Kraków as the son of Andrzej Rieger, a prosecutor and lieutenant of the Polish Army military reserve force, and Antonina Latinik, the first champion of Poland in woman's foil; a grandson of Roman Rieger, mining engineer, lecturer and inventor, and Franciszek Latinik, General of the Polish Army. His father Andrzej Rieger was murdered in the Katyn massacre in 1940. In his youth, between 1940s and 1950s, Janusz Rieger was a scout and served as an altar boy at St. Florian's Church in Kraków, where Karol Wojtyła was a vicar. Rieger was a member of the Catholic student group t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Rieger
Erich Otto Ernst Rieger (born 1935 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German astrophysicist who spent his research career at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) near Munich. He is notable for his 1984 discovery of the period of ~154 days in solar flares. Since the discovery, the period has been confirmed in most heliophysics data in the Solar System, including the interplanetary magnetic field, and has become known as the ''Rieger period'' (PR). Rieger periodicities Rieger period Rieger and coworkers discovered in 1984 a strong period of ~154 days in hard solar flares, at least since the solar cycle 19. The period has since been confirmed in most heliophysics data and the interplanetary magnetic field, and is commonly known as the ''Rieger period''. Rieger-type periodicities Besides numerous confirmations of PR, its resonance harmonics were reported as well, including PR, PR, PR, PR, and PR, i.e., ~128, ~102, ~78, ~51, and ~31 days, called ''Rieger-type period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rieger–Kloss
Rieger–Kloss is a company specializing in the manufacturing of pipe organ. Its headquarters as well as the production facilities are located in Krnov, Czech Republic. History Rieger–Kloss date their establishment to 1873, by the Rieger brothers; they claim a common history with Rieger Orgelbau up to the end of World War II. Following the war, the Czechoslovak government expelled the Ethnic German owners and workers of the original firm from Czechoslovakia, and nationalised the Rieger company. In 1948 they were merged with the workshop of Josef Kloss, which had also been nationalised, to form a new company called 'Rieger–Kloss'. The workers and owners of the original firm founded a new firm in Austria as 'Rieger Orgelbau'. Rieger–Kloss met with success at the World Exhibition Expo 58, which led to 46 commissions in republics of the Soviet Union. The company became privately owned in 1994. Floods in July 1997 halted production for four weeks and caused great damage to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Rieger
Jürgen Hans Paul Rieger (11 May 1946, Blexen, Lower Saxony – 29 October 2009) was a Hamburg lawyer, avowed anti-semite, and deputy chairman of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) (as of October 2009), known for his Holocaust denial. Rieger represented Arpad Wigand former SS Police Leader of the Warsaw district in Occupied Poland, in his trial for war crimes in Hamburg District Court. Wigand was subsequently found guilty in December 1981, and sentenced to 12.5 years. Rieger was convicted among other for battery, incitement of the people (''Volksverhetzung''), and the use of prohibited symbols. Rieger joined the NPD in 2006, and became Hamburg chairman in 2007. He worked in the Heathen '' Artgemeinschaft Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft'' over many years. In the 1990s he was active in the now-suppressed far-right Wiking-Jugend and Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. He was an important figure for the NPD, because of his several party donations, the total a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Rieger
Friedrich Edmund "Fritz" Rieger (28 June 1910 – 30 September 1978), was a German conductor. Rieger was born in Oberaltstadt, Karkonosze, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. From 1931 to 1938 he worked in Prague. In August 1941 he became director of the Bremen Opera, and in August 1944 he took up the position of director of the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra. Rieger was a member of the Nazi party. In 1949 Rieger was announced as the chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra by the city government, replacing the modernist Hans Rosbaud who had been appointed by U.S. occupation authorities. According to author David Monod, the decision to release Rosbaud and replace him with the "young and relatively unknown but suitably conservative" Rieger was caused by a desire to attract larger audiences with more traditional programs, a necessity in the wake of currency reform in the western part of Germany. In 1952, Rieger announced that the orchestra would eliminate almost all modern m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Rieger
Gottfried Rieger (1 May 1764, Opavice – 13 October 1855, Brno) was an Austrian composer, conductor and teacher, resident for many years at Brno in what is today the Czech Republic. Life Rieger was born in 1764 in Tropplowitz, then in the Austrian Empire (now Opavice, part of Město Albrechtice in the Czech Republic). His father owned some land here on the Geppersdorf Estate, and was a musician. He received music lessons from his father, and played at village festivals. He became at age 13 a member of the private orchestra at Schloss Geppersdorf of Count . Here he learned to play more instruments. On the recommendation of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, he studied music theory with Father Damasus Brosmann, rector of the Piarist monastery at Bílá Voda."Rieger, Gottfried (1764-1855) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rieger Tuning
Rieger, full name: Rieger Kfz-Kunststoffteile, Design und Tuning GmbH, are a German based tuning and bodykit manufacturer based in Eggenfelden. Rieger Tuning was founded by Toni Rieger in a private garage in 1987. Rieger Tuning specializes in the development, production, and distribution of sport vehicle accessories, the focus being on body styling with the development and distribution of aerodynamic parts for the vehicles of predominantly European manufacture. Since inception Rieger has grown from a one-man operation into a Tuning Corporation with a 29 full time employees and approximately 15 part time employees. Foreign trade is over 60 percent of its sales. The corporate headquarters for Rieger Tuning in Germany is located an hours drive east of Munich. A seven bay installation facility allows opportunity to work details of fitment so that when they send their products around the world installation instructions accompany each product. The process of design, production and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Rieger
Bernhard Rieger (born 17 December 1922; died 10 April 2013 in Kressbronn) was a German Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Rieger was born in Wißgoldingen, Germany and was ordained a priest on 29 July 1951. Rieger was appointed bishop to the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart on 20 December 1984 as well as titular bishop of Tigava and ordained bishop on 2 February 1985. Reiger retired from Rottenburg-Stuttgart Diocese on 31 July 1996. See also * Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, '' Bu ... References External links Catholic-HierarchyRottenburg-Stuttgart Diocese(German) 20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops German Roman Catholic titular bishops 1922 births 2013 deaths 20th-century German Roman Catholic priests {{Germany- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Svante Rieger
__NOTOC__ Ladislav Svante Rieger (1916–1963) was a Czechoslovak mathematician who worked in the areas of algebra, mathematical logic, and axiomatic set theory Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies Set (mathematics), sets, which can be informally described as collections of objects. Although objects of any kind can be collected into a set, set theory, as a branch of mathematics, .... He is considered to be the founder of mathematical logic in Czechoslovakia, having begun his work around 1957. Notes References * * Further reading * * *, especially "3.5 Ladislav Rieger and lattices", pp. 238–250 * External links * 1916 births 1963 deaths Czechoslovak mathematicians Algebraists Set theorists Charles University alumni Academic staff of Charles University Czechoslovak philosophers {{Europe-mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
