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Siewert
Siewert is the surname of: * Alfons Siewert (1872-1922), Ukrainian physician * Brian Siewert, television composer * Clara Siewert (1862–1945), German Symbolist painter, graphic artist and sculptor * Eva Siewert (1907–1994), German writer * Jake Siewert (born 1964), former White House Press Secretary; Goldman Sachs (2012– ) * Rachel Siewert (born 1961), politician * Robert Siewert (1887–1973), politician and prisoner * Ruth Siewert (1915–2002), German contralto * Steven Siewert, photojournalist See also * * Sievert The sievert (symbol: SvNot be confused with the sverdrup or the svedberg, two non-SI units that sometimes use the same symbol.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing rad ... {{surname Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Siewert
Eva Siewert (11 February 1907 – 3 December 1994) was a German journalist, writer, radio announcer and opera singer, who lived and worked mainly in Berlin. Childhood Eva Siewert was born in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland), the daughter of two musicians. Her father Hans Siewert (1872–1941), son of a chemistry professor at the University of Córdoba (Argentina), was a Kammersänger. He became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated in German as NSDAP) in 1932. Her mother Frida Siewert (born Michels, 1880–1953) was an opera and concert singer and a Jew, which is why her daughter later acquired the status of a "first-degree hybrid". Hans Siewert and Frida Siewert divorced in Hamburg in 1911. Siewert lived mostly with her mother in Berlin, but was raised by governesses. She attended the Hohenzollern lyceum in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, graduating in 1923 with a high school diploma (Obersekundarreife). Her schooling was interrupted only once, in 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Siewert
Robert Siewert (30 December 1887 – 2 November 1973) was a German politician who fought in the German resistance to Nazism, German Resistance against National Socialism. He is a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, where he helped save the life of Stefan Jerzy Zweig (through causing the death of a Romani boy named Willi Blum), among others. Biography Youth, war and the early Weimar years Siewert was born the son of a carpenter in Schwersenz, Province of Posen, German Empire (today Swarzędz, Poznań County in Poland). He learned the trade of masonry and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1906. From 1908 to 1915, he worked as a bricklayer in Switzerland, where he got to know Vladimir Lenin and Heinrich Brandler. Siewert was a soldier during the First World War, serving on the Eastern front (World War I), eastern front, while also working for the Spartacist League. In 1918, he was a member of the Soldiers' Counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Siewert
Rachel Mary Siewert (born 4 November 1961) is an Australian politician. She was a senator for Western Australia from 2005 to 2021, representing the Australian Greens, and served as the party's co-deputy leader from 2017 to 2018. She previously worked as coordinator of the Conservation Council of Western Australia. Early life Siewert was born in Sydney on 4 November 1961. Her family moved to Perth when she was 13. She completed a Bachelor of Science in agriculture at the University of Western Australia. At university she became involved in the anti-nuclear movement. She subsequently worked as a research officer with the state Department of Agriculture from 1984 to 1987, studying salinity and soil conservation in Jerramungup. Siewert was the coordinator of the Conservation Council of Western Australia from 1987 to 2004, initially as the organisation's only paid staff member. In 2003 she was awarded the Bessie Rischbieth Conservation Award. Siewert was co-convener of The Greens ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Siewert
Richard L. "Jake" Siewert Jr. (born February 1, 1964) is an American political advisor serving as the head of corporate communications for investment bank Goldman Sachs. He served as the 22nd White House Press Secretary and the last of the Clinton administration and later in the Treasury department during the Obama Administration. Early life and education Siewert was born in New York City. In 1986, he graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in the humanities. He later attended Emory University, studying comparative literature and philosophy, and the University of California, Berkeley, studying law for three years, but did not earn an advanced degree. Career Siewert began his career in Washington as communications director for the Democratic Governors Association in 1991. From 1993 to 2001, Siewert held several positions during the Clinton administration, including serving as a special assistant to the president for economic affairs, working at the National E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfons Siewert
Alfons Karlovich Siewert (1872–1922), also called Alfons Karlovich Zivert or Alfonse-Ferdinand-Julius-Zivert, was a Ukrainian physician, who hailed from a German family closely allied to the Tsar and Imperial Russia. He is known for his eponymous contribution to the Siewert-Kartagener syndrome (Primary ciliary dyskinesia). Early life Siewert's father was born in Bialystok, Poland. After working in various places in postal services, he eventually became a chief in the 'Black Cabinet' of Kiev, dealing in censorship and intelligence. In 1907. he and his family were granted noble status by the Tsar. He married Johanna Dreyer, who bore four sons and two daughters, the eldest of which was Alfons. One of his brothers, Erich, followed in his father's footsteps. Alfons chose to enter into a medical career, and after gaining his qualifications, worked throughout his life at his alma mater, the Saint Vladimir University of Kiev (now National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv). Marriag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Siewert
Clara Siewert (9 December 1862, Budda ( Pomerania) – 11 October 1945, Berlin) was a German Symbolist painter, graphic artist and sculptor; associated with the Berlin Secession. Biography She was born to a family of Baltic-Germans who had moved from Saint Petersburg to Danzig after falling out of favor at court. Her father was a retired Prussian Army captain, her mother, Helene (1837–1924), was an amateur artist and her younger sister, became a popular novelist. She began drawing as a young girl; inspired by the magical themes of the fairy tales she and her friends acted out. Later, she would sketch from nature. After graduating from a women's college, she went to Königsberg in 1878 for professional lessons, but the Kunstakademie did not accept female students at that time, so she took private lessons with some local artists. In 1884, she began to divide her time between Budda and Berlin and was finally able to secure lessons from a notable painter, the Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Siewert
Brian D. Siewert, alternatively credited with or without his middle initial, is an American public speaker, multiple Emmy Award-winning concert and television composer, producer, songwriter, musician, arranger and visual artist. He has worked on '' The Guiding Light'' (1996–2009) as Principal Composer/Songwriter, ''As the World Turns'' (1995-2010) as Principal Composer/Songwriter and Supervising Music Producer, '' General Hospital'' - ABC (TV Series), '' The Oprah Winfrey Show'', '' The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' (2003), '' Another World'' (1995-1999),'' The Tyra Banks Show'' Syndicated, ''The Dr. Oz Show'' Syndicated, '' Sunset Beach'' (1997-1998), ''Extra'', ''Access Hollywood'', ''Street Smarts'', '' elimiDATE'', ''Celebrity Justice'', ''The Sharon Osbourne Show'', and ''The Real Gilligan's Island''. Siewert is the recipient of both ASCAP and BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) awards for his work in Film/TV Music. He toured with country music singer ''Wynonna Judd'' as her keyboardis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Siewert
Ruth Siewert (also Rut, Sievert-Schnaudt, Sievert; 1915 – July 2002) was a German contralto and voice teacher. She performed roles by Richard Wagner at major opera houses in Europe and at the Bayreuth Festival, and was known as a singer of oratorio and ''Lied''. Career Born Ruth Schnaudt in Viersen, she studied voice at the Folkwangschule in Essen with her aunt, Anna Erler-Schnaudt. She made her stage debut in Bremen in 1938, but became known especially as a concert singer from 1946. She was a member of the ensemble of the Staatstheater Karlsruhe from 1955 to 1956, and of the Düsseldorf Opera from 1956 to 1959. She performed in Wagner operas at the Bayreuth Festival, first in 1951 the role of Erda in ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', also the same year Schwertleite in ''Die Walküre'', the First Norne in ''Götterdämmerung'', later also Waltraute and Fricka in ''The Ring'' and the alto solo in ''Parsifal''. She sang Wagner roles also at major opera houses in Europe: at the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Siewert
Steven Siewert is an Australian photojournalist and art photographer. Siewert's photographs have appeared in the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' and the book, "The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget" with the author Tony Stephens. He was twice a recipient of the Nikon/Walkley Portrait Prize, winning in 2008 for “Waiting for Wanda Jackson”, published in the Good Weekend. In this same year he won a Walkley for his series on Australian rockabillies, from which the portrait was drawn. The series was subject of an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. In 2001, Siewert was also awarded an Asialink fellowship to work in Bangkok, Thailand for Asian newspaper, The Nation. Siewert's photography has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Leica gallery in Solms, Germany, the Museum of Sydney, the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, the State Library of NSW and Albury Regional Art Gallery. He is a former member of the Australian Oculi collective Books * ''The Last Anzacs: Les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sievert
The sievert (symbol: SvNot be confused with the sverdrup or the svedberg, two non-SI units that sometimes use the same symbol.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage. The sievert is important in dosimetry and radiation protection. It is named after Rolf Maximilian Sievert, a Swedish medical physicist renowned for work on radiation dose measurement and research into the biological effects of radiation. The sievert is used for radiation dose quantities such as equivalent dose and effective dose, which represent the risk of external radiation from sources outside the body, and committed dose, which represents the risk of internal irradiation due to inhaled or ingested radioactive substances. According to the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) one sievert results in a 5.5% prob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
