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Wenig
Wenig is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Carl Wenig (1830-1908), Baltic-German painter *Devin Wenig (born 1966), American business executive, former CEO of eBay *Josef Wenig (1896-1981), German labour and political activist *Margaret Wenig Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi known for advocating LGBT rights within Reform Judaism. Margaret became spiritually aware at an early age. A seminal moment in her development occurred when she was in sixth grade and had a ... (born 1957), American rabbi * Obe Wenig (1895–1959), American football player {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devin Wenig
Devin Norse Wenig (born 1966) is an American business executive. From July 2015 to September 2019, Wenig was president and CEO of eBay. From April 2008 to August 2011, Wenig was CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets, the financial and media businesses of Thomson Reuters Corporation. He is a director of General Motors and its subsidiary Cruise Automation, an autonomous vehicle company. Early life Devin Norse Wenig was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Carol Wenig and Jeffrey Wenig, a toxicologist, and founder and chief executive of Nastech Pharmaceutical Company of Hauppauge, Long Island. Wenig earned a bachelor's degree from Union College, and a JD degree from Columbia University School of Law. Career At age 23, following his father's unexpected death, Wenig took over as CEO of then-struggling Nastech Pharmaceutical, raising $5 million in venture capital. After a year as CEO, he recruited a healthcare CEO and joined the law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore. In 1993, Wenig joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Wenig
Josef Wenig (17 July 1896 – 16 April 1981) was a German labour and political activist (KPD). After 1945 he became an important figure in the East German political establishment. He was a member of the ruling party's powerful Central Committee between 1954 and his death in 1981. He was also a member of the country's (less powerful) National Parliament (''"Volkskammer"'') between 1950 and 1981. Life Josef ("Sepp") Wenig was born in Leiter (now Řebří, a part of Svojšín), a small village in the hills to the west of Plzeň in what was, at that time, western Bohemia, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His parents worked in a brickworks. However, by the time he was old enough to attend school the family had relocated to Germany, and he grew up in another rural location, Zeulenroda, a small country town to the west of Chemnitz. He left school in 1911. During the next three years, without at this stage entering into any formal training scheme, he took jobs in various sectors inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wenig
Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi known for advocating LGBT rights within Reform Judaism. Margaret became spiritually aware at an early age. A seminal moment in her development occurred when she was in sixth grade and had a birthday party, to which she invited all her classmates except one boy, who was devastated as a result. She realized the degree to which she had hurt the boy, and this set her on a path of soul searching and religious awareness. In 1976, she and Naomi Janowitz published ''Siddur Nashim'', which was the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery. She graduated from Brown University in 1978, and was ordained in 1984. In 1990, she wrote the sermon “God is a Woman and She is Growing Older”, which has been widely published. In 1995, Wenig, Sharon Kleinbaum, and Russell Pearce sent a resolution asking for support for civil marriage for gay couples to the Reform movement's Commission on Social Action; when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Wenig
Carl Bogdanovich Wenig or, in German, Carl Gottlieb Wenig (Russian: Карл Богданович Вениг; 26 February 1830, in Tallinn – 6 February 1908, in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic-German painter of historical and religious scenes. For many years, he was a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Biography His father, Gottlieb (1804-1874), was a music teacher and organist at St. Nicholas' Church. His mother, Agathe (1808-1895), was an amateur artist and the aunt of Peter Carl Fabergé.Biographical notes @ RusArtNet. From 1844 to 1853, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts with . During his time there, he won several medals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
