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Spindler
Spindler or Špindler (English, German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a spindle maker) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amy Spindler (1963–2004), American journalist * Angela Spindler, British businesswoman, CEO of The Original Factory Shop * Betty Spindler (born 1943), American ceramist * Charles Spindler (1865–1938), Alsatian painter, marquetry inlayer, writer and photographer * Fritz Spindler (1817–1905), German pianist and composer * George Spindler, American anthropologist * Herbert Spindler (born 1954), Austrian former cyclist * James C. Spindler, American lawyer and law professor * Jaroslav Špindler (1890–1965), Bohemian-Austrian footballer * Johanne Spindler (1781–1861), Danish ballet dancer and stage actress * Karl Spindler (naval officer) (1887–1951), German naval officer who was involved in an attempt to bring German arms ashore in Ireland in 1916 * Karl Spindler (novelist) (1796–1855), German novelist * Konrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Spindler
Siegfried Emil "Sid" Spindler (9 July 19321 March 2008) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1990 to 1996, representing the Australian Democrats. Early life Spindler was born in Łódź, Poland, to an ethnic German family. He was the son of Gertrud Alma (née Bernewitz) and Oskar Karl Spindler; his father was a businessman. Spindler was considered part of the ''Volksdeutsche'' by the Nazi regime, and after the German invasion of Poland in 1939 was required to join the ''Deutsches Jungvolk'' (part of the Hitler Youth). When Germany's Eastern Front collapsed in 1944, Spindler and other children of Łódź were evacuated to a rural estate north of the city. In January 1945, he and his companions were forced to flee west on foot to escape the advancing Red Army; many of them were killed by starvation, exposure, or bombing raids. Spindler was eventually reunited with his family in Magdeburg, and they settled in Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt, which became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nellie Spindler
Nellie Spindler (September 1891 – 21 August 1917) was a staff nurse who was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele. She is one of only two British female casualties of World War I buried in Belgium and the only woman buried among more than 10,000 men at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. Life Nellie Spindler was born to Elizabeth and George Kealey Spindler in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Her father was a police sergeant, and later inspector, in Wakefield City Police. Spindler entered nursing in 1911 at the City Fever Hospital, Wakefield and trained at Leeds Township Infirmary from 1912 to 1915. She joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in October 1915. To join the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service it was necessary to be single or recently widowed, to have completed a three-year training course in a hospital approved by the War Office and to be over 25 years old; Spindler was only 24 at the time she signed up. On her application form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Spindler (naval Officer)
Karl Spindler (1887-1951) was a German naval officer who was involved in an arms smuggling operation intended to equip Irish rebels as part of the Easter Rising of 1916. Early life Spindler was born in the small town of Königswinter, near Cologne, Germany on 29 May 1887, the son of a quarry owner, Hubert Spindler, and his wife Elise (née Fuchs). At an early age Spindler decided to go to sea rather than to join the family business, serving for a period as a watch officer on a Lloyd Line steamship. He subsequently enlisted in the marine school in Bremen and the naval academy in Sonderburg (now in Denmark, but then in Germany). He served on several ships of the German Imperial Navy and at the outbreak of the Great War, he was commanding the Polarstern, a guardship for the port of Wilhelmshaven. Naval career On 20 March 1916, Spindler was given command of a merchant ship named the '' Libau'', falsely renamed ''Aud'', a Norwegian freighter of similar appearance, and selected a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Spindler
Michael Spindler (22 December 1942 – 2017) was a German businessman who was president and CEO of Apple from 1993 to 1996. Spindler was born in Berlin. Personal life From 1985 until his death in 2017, Spindler lived between Paris, France, and San Francisco, California, United States, with his wife Maryse and three kids Karen, Laurie, and John. Career Spindler graduated from engineering at Technical University in Cologne in 1964 and worked at DEC and Intel, before he moved to join Apple Computer. Having joined Apple in 1980 after Mike Markkula brought him over to help out with Apple's European office; he rose through the ranks in Apple's European operations as President of Apple Europe, then President of Apple International. Michael Spindler had built a reputation as a great strategist in business tactics. One of his most successful strategies that soared Apple's global sales included giving Apple's various territories more autonomy over their marketing strategies. In January of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Spindler
Angela Spindler is a British businesswoman and the former CEO of N Brown Group Plc; she assumed the role in July 2013. She is also the chair of Remco, based in Manchester. Career Early years Spindler attended the Victoria University of Manchester and Harvard Business School. Spindler started her career in 1983 as a graduate trainee at Cadbury Schweppes. She then moved to Pedigree Petfoods, gathering experience in sales, marketing and human resources. In 1997, she joined Asda as a Unit Director and climbed her way through the ranks until November 2005, when she became Managing Director of George Clothing, Asda's clothing department that is stocked in Asda's and Walmart's in several countries worldwide. Debenhams Spindler left her role at George Clothing in August 2007, to become Managing Director of Debenhams, a high street clothing retailer in the UK, with franchises around the world. She left this role in January 2009, to take an opportunity that she described as “simpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Spindler
William Spindler (born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1963) is a Guatemalan writer and journalist, whose works include fiction, poetry, and journalism in English and Spanish. He is the author of a novel ''Paises lejanos'', (Magna Terra Editores, 2011, Colección Narrativa) and a book of short stories, "Expediciones", published in Bogota, Colombia in 2004. He was educated at the Liceo Guatemala school where he obtained a ''Bachillerato en Ciencias y Letras'' (Bachelors in Sciences and Letters) in September 1980. He completed his further education in London, UK after his family moved there in 1981. In 1988 he graduated from the Polytechnic of the South Bank (now the University of the South Bank) in London with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages and International Studies. As a student, Spindler began to contribute articles, short stories, poetry and book reviews to various newspapers and magazines in the United Kingdom. He wrote both in English and Spanish, sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Spindler
Betty Spindler (born 1943) is an American ceramist, known for her ceramic renditions of fruits, vegetables, and other foods through clay, newspaper, and vibrant colors. Life Born in Long Beach, California in 1943, Spindler struggled with learning disabilities as a child, getting diagnosed with dyslexia a few years later. She began her art career with classes at Sherman E. Burroughs High School, but did not immediately continue with her college education. She married and started a family. Education Spindler resumed her formal art education in 1979, with classes at Cerro Coso Community College where she began to focus on ceramics. She graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in 1986. She then attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 at the age of 47. Career While Spindler's ceramics work started as a hobby, she slowly parlayed this into a professional career. Her most prominent work, the 2000 sculpture ''Hot Dog'', is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Spindler
Amy M. Spindler (1963 in Michigan City, Indiana – 27 February 2004 in New York City) was an American journalist who had been style editor of ''The New York Times Magazine''. Spindler began at the ''Times'' as a columnist on the Style desk in 1993, then became a fashion critic a year later. In 1998, Spindler became the style editor of the ''Timess magazine section. Career After graduating from Indiana University, Spindler move to New York and began working jobs at several Conde Nast magazines. Soon after, she moved to Paris, where she became the associate fashion editor of W Europe. In 1993, she joined ''The New York Times'' as a columnist on the Style desk. Later that year she became a fashion critic and was deemed fashion critic of the year. She became the fashion editor for The Times Magazine in 1998 but left the following November. Spindler was widely known for her criticisms of the fashion industry and her reputation as a tough reporter. Personal life Spindler graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Spindler
Charles Spindler (11 March 1865 in Bœrsch – 3 March 1938 in Bœrsch) was an Alsatian painter, marquetry inlayer, writer and photographer. He was also a supporter of Alsatian regionalism and founded several institutions for the promotion of Alsatian culture. Life and work His father was a notary. At the age of twelve, he was enrolled in drawing classes and received encouragement to make art a career from his uncle , a painter. A scholarship he received in 1882 enabled him to study in Düsseldorf, Munich and Berlin. While in Munich, he met Martin von Feuerstein, a painter of sacred art, who introduced him to the Ott Brothers (glass makers) in 1887. After executing several projects for them in Strasbourg and completing his military service, he returned to Bœrsch, but found little work. By chance, he befriended Anselme Laugel, a politician and writer who painted in his spare time and became a major supporter of Spindler's efforts. In 1893, Spindler and his friend Joseph Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Spindler
Fritz Spindler (24 November 1817 – 26 December 1905) was a German pianist and composer, especially of works for the piano. Biographical sketch Born in Wurzbach, Spindler's output of more than 400 opus numbers includes salon pieces, chamber music, symphonies and other large forms, and over 300 piano pieces. But he is best remembered, if at all today, for a much-anthologized sonatina. He published almost 350 compositions. He died in Niederlößnitz/Radebeul, near Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg .... Publications * Berthold Tours, Fritz Spindler: ''Novello, Ewer and Co.'s Pianoforte Albums. Nos. 17, 18, and 19. Compositions by Fritz Spindler'', in: ''The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular'', vol. 27, no. 524 (1 Oct. 1886), p. 611 * Otto Wagner: " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanne Spindler
Johanne Spindler (1781 – 1861), was a Danish ballet dancer and stage actress. She was regarded as one of the elite members of the Royal Danish Ballet in 1790–1806, and as an actress of the Royal Danish Theatre in 1799–1829. She attracted attention also for her private life - in 1806, she divorced her first husband and was forced to pay him allowance, which was almost unique for a woman in contemporary Denmark. in '''' After her second marriage to a rich man in 1811, she continued to work (which was also unusual for an actress married to a non-artist in that epoch) and also attracted attention by being able to play the role of u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Spindler (novelist)
Spindler by Winterhalter. Karl Spindler (October 16, 1796 – July 12, 1855) was a German novelist. Biography Spindler was born in Breslau, and educated at Strasburg. He joined a company of strolling players in Germany, and resided from 1832 at Baden-Baden. He died at Freiersbach, Baden, aged 58. Works His reputation rests on his historical romance Historical romance is a broad category of mass-market fiction focusing on romantic relationships in historical periods, which Walter Scott helped popularize in the early 19th century. Varieties Viking These books feature Vikings during the Da ...s: * ''Der Bastard'' (3 vols., Zürich, 1826) * ''Der Jude'' (4 vols., Stuttgart, 1827) * ''Der Jesuit'' (3 vols., 1829) * ''Der Invalide'' (5 vols., 1831). His complete works include 102 volumes (1831–54), besides minor novels contained in his periodical publication ''Vergissmeinnicht'' (1830–55). Notes References * 1796 births 1855 deaths German journalists German m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
