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Degener
Degener is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edward Degener (1809–1890), German-American politician *Gülşen Degener (born 1968), Turkish-born German carom billiards player * Jeannette Schmidt Degener (1926–2017), Nigerien politician *Isa Degener (1924–2018), German-American botanist and conservationist *Joachim Degener (1883–1953), German general * Johannes Degener (1889–1959), German politician *Otto Degener Otto Degener (May 13, 1899 – January 16, 1988) was a botanist and conservationist who specialized in identifying plants of the Hawaiian Islands. Biography Degener was born May 13, 1899, in East Orange, New Jersey. Degener graduated from the Mass ... (1899–1988), American botanist and conservationist * Richard Degener (1912–1995), American diver * Theresia Degener (born 1961), German jurist and professor of law See also * Degen (surname) * Degner {{surname, Degener German-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Degener
Edward Degener (October 20, 1809 – September 11, 1890) was a German-born American politician. He was a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas during the Reconstruction era. Originally from Germany, Degener moved to the United States and lived in Texas. During the American Civil War, slave-holding Texas joined the Confederacy, but Degener remained loyal to the Union, and was persecuted by the Confederates for this loyalty to the U.S. Two of Degener's sons were murdered by the Confederates in the Nueces massacre. After the war ended, Degener served as a Republican congressman for the Texan 4th Congressional District and as a San Antonio city council member in the 1870s. He died in 1890. Early life and education Born in Brunswick in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany), Degener pursued an academic course in Germany and in England. He was twice a member of the legislative body in Anhalt-Dessau and was a member of the first German National Assembly at Frankfurt-am-Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gülşen Degener
Gülşen Degener (born 25 October 1968, in Şanlıurfa) is a female Turkish-born, Germany-resident professional carom billiards player. Career Gülşen Degener was born in Şanlıurfa, southeastern Turkey on October 25, 1968. She began playing billiards while she was at Uludağ University in Bursa, Turkey, studying English philology and literature. After graduation, she served four years in Istanbul and three years in Berlin, Germany as a teacher for English language. During her stay in the Netherlands, she played in the Dutch Billiards League. In the summer of 2013, she quit her profession as a teacher in Germany, which she had taken a break as she received an offer in the Netherlands to switch over to professional billiards player. She has been playing billiards for 10 years, the last 4 years professionally. After mastering straight rail billiards, she switched over to three-cushion, a more difficult variety. In the mid-1990s, Gülşen moved to Berlin, Germany. In 1999, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Schmidt Degener
Jeannette Schmidt Degener (1926 – 19 February 2017) was a Nigerien businesswoman, feminist and politician. A member of the women's rights organization Union des Femmes du Niger, she became active in politics in the 1960s. From 1996 to 1999, she was the only woman to serve as a member of the National Assembly and was elected as the fourth vice president of its Bureau. She was successful in campaigning for the legal age for marriage for girls to be raised from 12 to 16. Early life The daughter of a Tuareg mother and a French father, her maternal grandfather was Ag Mohammed Wau Teguidda Kaocen who led a revolt in 1916 against French colonial rule. Career Initially Schmidt Degener worked in the import-export business and ran a number of hotels and restautants. In 1960, she became a member of the Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally (PPN-RDA) and was active in the women's rights association Union des Femmes du Niger. In the early 1990s, she joined the Democrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Degener
Isa Irmgard Degener née Hansen (April 27, 1924, Berlin – April 13, 2018, Waialua, Hawaii) was a German-American plant collector and botanist, specializing in agrostology. She is known as the coauthor of ''Flora Hawaiiensis''. Isa Hansen studied botany at the University of Berlin and worked there as an assistant to Hermann Otto Sleumer and Erich Werdermann. Later she worked at the Berlin Botanical Garden and specialized in the grasses. In 1952 she met Otto Degener, who had come to Berlin in search of a grass expert. They began a correspondence and married in January 1953. The couple worked together, collecting botanical specimens in the Hawaiian Islands. They also made an important expedition to Polynesia. Otto and Isa Degener were associated with the New York Botanical Garden for many years. The New York Botanical Garden appointed Otto Degener as Collaborator of Hawaiian Botany in 1935 and appointed Isa Degener as Honorary Collaborator of Hawaiian Botany in 1975. In 1964 Otto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Degener
Joachim Karl Hermann Felix Degener (28 November 1893 – 7 September 1953) was a German professional soldier. He served his country as a junior officer in World War I, a staff officer in the inter-war period and a brigade-level commander during World War II. Life Joachim Degener, son of dragoon officer and retired Colonel Alfred Degener, joined the Braunschweigisches Husaren-Regiment Nr. 17 straight from school (after Abitur) on 20 September 1912, and in the First World War, he was an Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant). He served in the Field in the 4th Squadron, then in the 13th Hussar-Regiment, and eventually again in the 17th Hussar-Regiment. Oberst at the beginning of the Second World War, he assumed command of the 5th Rifle-Brigade until 1941. He was nominated commander of Würzburg from February 1941 to April 1944. First detached to Army Group North Ukraine as Commandant of the Strongpoint Position of Kovel in April 1944, he was detached to the Military-Commander of France s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Degener
Johannes Degener (September 14, 1889 – February 13, 1959) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa .... Life In 1946, he became a member of the CDU and was the state manager from 1946 to 1947, and from 1946 to 1 October 1949, he was a member of the Bremische Bürgerschaft, where he had been chairman of the CDU parliamentary group since 1947. He was a member of the German Bundestag from the first election in 1949 until 31 December 1951. Literature References 1889 births 1959 deaths Members of the Bundestag for Bremen (state) Members of the Bundestag 1949–1953 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Members of the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Degener
Otto Degener (May 13, 1899 – January 16, 1988) was a botanist and conservationist who specialized in identifying plants of the Hawaiian Islands. Biography Degener was born May 13, 1899, in East Orange, New Jersey. Degener graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst). Intending to spend a year as a tourist, he arrived in Hawaii but decided to stay. He received his MA from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1922 and his PhD from Columbia University. He taught botany at the University of Hawaiʻi from 1925 to 1927, and was the first naturalist for what are now Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park. In 1932, Degener started the first book on Hawaiian plants published since that of William Hillebrand in 1888. It was titled ''Flora Hawaiiensis'', and published in several volumes over his lifetime. On January 10, 1953, he married the botanist Isa Irmgard Hansen, whom he met in Berlin in 1952. They collected plants toge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Degener
Richard Kempster Degener (March 14, 1912 – August 24, 1995) was an American diving (sport), diver and NCAA titlist who swam for the University of Michigan and the Detroit Athletic Club. He won a bronze and a gold medal in the 3 m springboard at the 1932 and 1936 Berlin Olympics, respectively. His Olympic diving coach, Richard O. Papenguth, Dick Papenguth labelled Degener “the greatest of all divers.” Swimming career At age 10, Degener began his swimming career when his father August, an early Ford Motor employee, paid ten dollars for the Detroit Yacht Club swimming coach to give him diving lessons. He told news accounts that he stopped lessons after learning the jack knife and front and back somersaults, but knew he needed to continue training after taking only third place among three entrants in one of his first competitions. Degener graduated Detroit Central High School around 1929 where he first established himself as a diving champion.Bennett, Laurie, "Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresia Degener
Theresia Degener (born 10 April 1961 in Altenberge, West Germany) is a jurist and professor of law at the Protestant University for Applied Sciences of the Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe. Degener is well known for being an outspoken victim of the ''Contergan Skandal'', also known as the thalidomide disaster/tragedy, which makes reference to the drug thalidomide first marketed in 1957 in West Germany under the trade-name Contergan. The drug, first described as a mild sleeping aid, caused thousands of babies worldwide to be born with malformed limbs. She is also a lead activist of the rights of Persons With Disabilities, and is the Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is also a member of the Human Rights Initiative Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation. Education and personal life Theresia Degener graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law, has worked at the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (DCDD) and is a Legal Expert ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degen (surname)
Degen is a surname of Swiss, German or Croatian origin. There are numerous unrelated families sharing the name, which can originate in a number of given names beginning in ''Degen-'' ("hero"); compare the '' Degener'' surname, from the German given name ''Degenher''. A family called ''Degen'' originally from Muotathal, Schwyz, rose to some prominence in the Swiss Confederacy in the 16th century. Members of the family were reeves in Riviera, Gaster, Blenio, Thurgau, and ''Landammann'' in March. This family was extinct in 1826. Notable people with the surname include: * Árpád Degen (1866–1934), Hungarian biologist and botanist * Benjamin Degen, American painter, son of Bruce Degen *Bob Degen (born 1944), American jazz pianist *Bruce Degen (1945–2024), American illustrator and writer * Carl Ferdinand Degen (1766–1825), Danish mathematician * Celina Degen, Austrian footballer * Chen Degen, Chinese skier *David Degen (born 1983), Swiss footballer * Dick Degen, American football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degner
Degner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Betty Degner, American baseball player *Ernst Degner Ernst Degner (born Ernst Eugen Wotzlawek on 22 September 1931 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany - died 10 September 1983 in Arona, Tenerife, Spain) was a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Eastern Germany. He defected to the ... (1931–1983), German motorcycle road racer See also * Degener * Deger * Denner {{surname German-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (South Jutland County, North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Germans of Romania, Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (European Collectivity of Alsace, Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the global language system, major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
