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Thiess (other)
Thiess may refer to: * Thiess (surname) * Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Livonian werewolf * Thiess Pty Ltd Thiess Pty Ltd is an international mining services company based in Brisbane, Australia. Established in the 1930s as Horn & Thiess, the company later became Thiess Bros and Thiess Contractors before being bought by Leighton Holdings in 1983 to ..., an Australian mining services company ** Thiess Contractors Indonesia, the regional subsidiary of Thiess See also * Thies (other) * Theiss (other) * Thiessen (other) * Theissen (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiess (surname)
Thiess is a north German name originating from the given name Matthias. It may refer to * Dorothea Thiess (1897–1973), German stage, film and television actress * Frank Thiess (1890–1977), German writer *Leslie Thiess (1909–1992), Australian construction and mining entrepreneur * Ursula Thiess Ursula Thiess (May 15, 1924 – June 19, 2010) was a German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s. Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films as Ursula Schmidt. ... (1924–2010), German film actress References {{surname German-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiess Of Kaltenbrun
Thiess of Kaltenbrun, also spelled Thies, and commonly referred to as the Livonian werewolf, was a Livonian man who was put on trial for heresy in Jürgensburg, Swedish Livonia, in 1692. At the time in his eighties, Thiess openly proclaimed himself to be a werewolf (''wahrwolff''), claiming that he ventured into Hell with other werewolves in order to do battle with the Devil and his witches. Although claiming that as a werewolf he was a "hound of God", the judges deemed him guilty of trying to turn people away from Christianity, and he was sentenced to be both flogged and banished for life. According to Thiess' account, he and the other werewolves transformed on three nights a year, and then traveled down to Hell. Once there, they fought with the Devil and his witches in order to rescue the grain and livestock which the witches had stolen from the Earth. Various historians have turned their attention towards the case of Thiess, interpreting his werewolf beliefs in a variety of di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiess Pty Ltd
Thiess Pty Ltd is an international mining services company based in Brisbane, Australia. Established in the 1930s as Horn & Thiess, the company later became Thiess Bros and Thiess Contractors before being bought by Leighton Holdings in 1983 to become part of the CIMIC Group. Thiess' headquarters are located in the Thiess Centre in South Bank in the Brisbane CBD near the TAFE Brisbane City campus. Following restructuring within CIMIC in 2014 and the merger of several international Leighton businesses into Thiess, the company claims to have become the largest contract mining services provider in the world. History Thiess was founded as Horn & Thiess in 1933 by Henry Horn and Leslie Thiess with headquarters in Toowoomba. Initially the business focused on road-building and earth moving but subsequently expanded into dam construction, open cut mining and other forms of civil engineering. After other members of the Thiess family bought Horn out, it was renamed Thiess Bros. In 1951 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiess Contractors Indonesia
PT Thiess Contractors Indonesia is a subsidiary of Thiess Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of CIMIC Group. History Thiess originally commenced operations in Indonesia in 1972 when it acquired a 50% in Petrosea. After Thiess was taken over by CSR in 1980, the overseas operations including Indonesia operations were sold to Leighton Contractors. Thiess re-entered the Indoneasian market when Thiess Contractors Indonesia was established in 1988 and, working in a joint venture with PT Mintekindo Utama Into, started undertaking mining activities. Its first major mining contract was awarded in March 1989 by BHP at Senakin Mine in East Kalimantan East Kalimantan ( Indonesian: ) is a province of Indonesia. Its territory comprises the eastern portion of Borneo. It had a population of about 3.03 million at the 2010 census (within the current boundary), 3.42 million at the 2015 census, and 3 .... Ownership Thiess Pty Ltd hold a 99% shareholding in Thiess Contractors Indonesia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thies (other)
Thies may refer to * Thiès, a city in Senegal **Université de Thiès in Senegal **Olympique Thiès, a Senegalese football club **Roman Catholic Diocese of Thiès **Thiès Department *Thiès Region in western Senegal *Thies (name) See also *Thiers (other) *Thiess (other) *Thys *Thijs Thijs is a common Dutch given name and surname. It is a short form of Matthijs (Dutch form of Matthew) or Timothijs or Timotheus (Dutch forms of Timothy). The ij is pronounced . Some notable people with this name are: Given name * Thijs Al ( ... {{Disambiguation, geo Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theiss (other)
__NOTOC__ Theiss may refer to: Companies * Theiss Aviation, an American aircraft manufacturer *Konrad Theiss Verlag, a German book publishing company People * Brooke Theiss (born 1969), American actress * Christine Theiss (born 1980), German female world champion in professional full contact kickboxing * Mike Theiss (born 1978), American photographer * William Ware Theiss (1930–1992), American costume designer * ''Theiss.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Ferdinand Theissen (1877–1919), German-Austrian mycologist Places * Lake Theiss or Lake Tisza * Theiss River or Tisza See also * * Theis (other) * Tisza (other) * Thiess (other) Thiess may refer to: * Thiess (surname) * Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Livonian werewolf * Thiess Pty Ltd Thiess Pty Ltd is an international mining services company based in Brisbane, Australia. Established in the 1930s as Horn & Thiess, the company l ... * Theissen (other) * Thiessen (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiessen (other)
Thiessen may refer to: * Alfred H. Thiessen (1872–1956), American meteorologist * Brad Thiessen (ice hockey player, born 1986), Canadian ice hockey player * Dan Thiessen (1946–2014), college football coach * Dan Thiessen (politician) (1922-2012), Kansas state legislator * Del Thiessen, American psychology professor * Duane D. Thiessen (born 1951), Lieutenant General in US Marine Corps * Georg Heinrich Thiessen (1914–1961), German astronomer * Gordon Thiessen (born 1938), Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994–2001 * J. Grant Thiessen (born 1947), Canadian bibliographer and bookseller * Jack Thiessen (1931-2022), lexicographer * James Thiessen (born 1974), former Australian rules footballer * Jayson Thiessen (born 1976), Canadian director * Juliana Thiessen Day (born 1980), former 1998 Miss Canadian Universe * Marc Thiessen (born 1967), American author and speech-writer for President George W. Bush * Matt Thiessen (born 1980), Canadian-American musician * Nolan Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
