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Weise (other)
__NOTOC__ Weise is a surname, meaning "wise" or "prudent" in German. Notable people with the name include: A *Andreas Weise (born 1986), Swedish singer and songwriter * Agustín Saavedra Weise (born 1943), Bolivian diplomat and writer *Arne Weise (1930–2019), Swedish television personality B * Birgit Weise, German luger * Brian Weise, American soccer coach C *Christian Weise (1642–1708), German writer and dramatist D *Dale Weise (born 1988), Canadian ice hockey player * David Weise, ballroom dancer * Dietrich Weise (1934–2020), German footballer and football manager * Dirk Weise (born 1952), German sprint canoer E *Eberhard Weise (born 1953), German bobsledder H * Hans-Joachim Weise (born 1912), German competitive sailor *Hubert Weise (1884–1950), German Luftwaffe officer J *Jeff Weise (1988–2005), American spree killer and school shooter who perpetrated the 2005 Red Lake shootings * Julia Vargas-Weise (1942 – 1 April 2018) Bolivian photographer, screenwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Weise
Andreas Georg Fredrik Weise (born 18 August 1986) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, TV host and entertainer. He finished in fifth place on the Swedish '' Idol 2010''. Genres and musical expression Weise's music has influences from genres such as soul, jazz and swing, he has on several occasions been described as a "crooner". He is not classically trained but has developed his vocal style himself. Weise is a tenor. Weise is known to be an "entertainer". He's inspired by great musicians as Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Sammy Davis Jr. Thereto Weises music and style is often compared to contemporary artists such as Robbie Williams and John Newman. In addition to his musical talent, Weise often appears in humorous contexts on Swedish TV shows. Career Swedish Idol 2010 Andreas Weise early on distinguished himself in the competition by his choice of classical song and as the "entertainer" of the show. He finished in fifth place. Below is a list of performances that Weis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Lake Shootings
The Red Lake shootings were a spree killing that occurred on March 21, 2005, in two places on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. That afternoon, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe tribal police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at their home. After taking his grandfather's police weapons and bulletproof vest, Weise drove his grandfather's police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he had been a student some months before. Weise shot and killed seven people at the school and wounded five others. The dead included an unarmed security guard at the entrance of the school, a teacher, and five students. After the police arrived, Weise exchanged gunfire with them. After being wounded, he shot and killed himself in a classroom. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in the United States since the Columbine High School massacre. Background At the time of the shooting, by some accounts, Jeff Weise w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weiss (other)
Weiss or Weiß may refer to: People * Weiss (surname), including spelling Weiß * Weiss Ferdl (1883-1949), German actor Places * Mount Weiss, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada * Weiss Lake, Alabama * Weiß (Sieg), a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Weiss (river), a river in Haut-Rhin, France * Weiss (crater), on the Moon In military affairs * , several ships * Fall Weiss (Case or Plan White), German military operations: ** Fall Weiss (1939), against Poland ** Fall Weiss, 1943 Case White offensive in Yugoslavia Other uses * ''Weiß'', "first" album in Weiß & Schwarz pair of simultaneous Böhse Onkelz releases * Nathan Weiss Graduate College, New Jersey, United States * Weiss Amphitheater, a caldera in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica * Weiss Hall, a dormitory of Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on the National Register of Historic Places * Weiss, a fictional character in the light novel series ''The Saga of Tanya the Evil'' * Weiss Schnee, a fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weiser (other)
Weiser may refer to: Places * Weiser, Idaho * Weiser State Forest * Weiser Township, North Dakota * Weiser River People * Conrad Weiser (1696–1760), German pioneer * Grethe Weiser (1903–1970), German actress * Johann Conrad Weiser, Sr. (1662–1746), German Palatine * Mark Weiser (1952–1999), chief scientist of Xerox PARC * Malbim (1809–1879) (Meïr Löb ben Jehiel Michel Weiser), Russian rabbi * Mitchell Weiser (born 1994), German footballer * Peter M. Weiser (1781–c. 1825-1828), member of the Corps of Discovery * Ronald Weiser (born 1945), American Diplomat * Sarah Banet-Weiser, American academic and author Others * ''Weiser'' (film), a film directed by Wojciech Marczewski (2001) *Red Wheel Weiser Conari, a publisher previously known as Weiser or Samuel Weiser, Inc from 1956 to 2000 See also *Weise,a surname *Weisse Weisse or Weiße is a surname which means "white" in German. It may refer to: People * Charles H. Weisse (1866–1919), American politician * Christia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weis (other)
Weis may refer to: * Weis (surname), including a list of people with the name * Weis, an Australian frozen dessert brand * Weis Markets, supermarket chain * WEIS (AM), a radio station (990 AM) licensed to Centre, Alabama, USA * Weis Manufacturing Company, a NRHP in Monroe, Michigan * Weis, the middle frog in the Budweiser Frogs advertising campaign See also * Weise * Weiss (other) * Weisse Weisse or Weiße is a surname which means "white" in German. It may refer to: People * Charles H. Weisse (1866–1919), American politician * Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804), German writer * Christian Hermann Weisse (1801–1866), German Prote ... * Weisz * Wise (other) * WAIS (other) {{Disambiguation, callsign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woeser
Tsering Woeser (also written Öser; ; , Han name Chéng Wénsà 程文萨; born 1966) is a Tibetan writer, activist, blogger, poet and essayist. Biography Woeser, a quarter Han Chinese and three quarters Tibetan, was born in Lhasa. Her grandfather, Chinese, was an officer in the Nationalist Army of the Kuomintang and her father was a high rank Army officer in the People's Liberation Army. When she was very young, her family relocated to the Kham area of western Sichuan province. In 1988, she graduated from Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu with a degree in Chinese literature. She worked as a reporter in Kardzé and later in Lhasa and has lived in Beijing since 2003 as a result of political problems. Woeser is married to Wang Lixiong, a renowned author who frequently writes about Tibet. According to Reporters sans frontières, "Woeser is one of the few Tibetan authors and poets to write in Chinese." When the government refused to give her a passport, she sued t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Weise
Wolfgang Weise (born 12 June 1949) is a German former volleyball player who competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as .... In 1972 he was part of the East German team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all seven matches. External links * * 1949 births Living people German men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for East Germany Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Sportspeople from Leipzig Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics {{Germany-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Weise
Martin Weise (12 May 1903 in Torgau; 15 November 1943 in Brandenburg-Görden Prison) was a German journalist, member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a resistance fighter against the Nazis during World War II. From 1929 to 1934, Weiss published the socialist Die Rote Fahne newspaper. He was arrested and sent to a concentration camp until 1939. When he was released, he decided to resist and made contact with Wilhelm Guddorf and the Hamburg based group around Bernhard Bästlein and Robert Abshagen He became associated with an anti-fascist resistance group that was run by Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack, that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. Life Wiese was the son of a teacher. As a secondary school pupil, Weise joined the Wandervogel movement, then the (FSJ), then later still in 1927, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), becoming a committed communist. Weise began studying history and philosophy in 1922. However, he had to abandon his stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Weise
Markus Weise (born 19 December 1962 in Mannheim) is a German field hockey coach. Since 6 November 2006, he has been Head Coach of the Germany national field hockey team. Previous to this role, he was the coach of the Germany women's national field hockey team and with a variety of (national) teams of the German National Hockey Federation, including being assistant coach to Bernhard Peters in the Gold medal success of the 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup in Malaysia. As a club coach in the German Bundesliga (1st Division), he was the head coach for many years with TSV Mannheim. His greatest success was winning the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the Germany women's national field hockey team, thus becoming the first coach in the history of field hockey to win an olympic gold medal in both the Men's as well as the Women's competition. His German side defeated Spain 1–0 to win the 2008 Olympic Men's Hockey Final. Awards * Sportsperson of the year(Germany) **20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak
Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak ( Wiese, born 16 March 1961) is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1985. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1981. Chess career Daughter of Polish chess organizer and economist Ryszard Wiese (03.02.1937–16.12.2013). In 1976 Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak won the Polish Junior Chess Championship. From the mid 1970s to the late 1980s she was one of the leading Polish women chess player. From 1975 to 1990 Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak played 14 times in the Polish Women's Chess Championship's finals and won nine medals: gold (1985), 6 silver (1978, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990) and 2 bronze (1977, 1980). She won two medals in European Junior Chess Championship - silver (1981) and bronze (1979). Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak won international tournaments in Piotrków Trybunalski (1980), Nałęczów (1980, 1982). In 1984 open tournament in Hamburg Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak fulfilled Grandmas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Weise
Konrad Weise (born 17 August 1951 in Greiz) is a German former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ... who played as a defender. He played his career at senior level for Carl Zeiss Jena (1970–1986). At international level he played between 1970 and 1981 for the East Germany national team (86 matches, two goals), and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. References External links * Weltfussball 1951 births Living people People from Bezirk Gera Sportspeople from Gera German men's footballers East German men's footballers Footballers from Thuringia FC Carl Zeiss Jena players 1974 FIFA World Cup players Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for East Germany Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Weise
Julius Weise (6 June 1844 – 25 February 1925) was a German entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera, especially Chrysomelidae and Coccinellidae, and was one of the first entomologists to use genitalia to identify and classify species. His collections of Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae, Staphylinidae and Carabidae are in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, and his collections of Cerambycidae and Coccinellidae are in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. at www.biol.uni.wroc.pl Collections of and the |
