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Höss (surname)
Höss () is a German surname and can refer to several people including: * Maria Crescentia Höss (1682–1744), Roman Catholic saint * Otto Höss (1897–1971), Austrian football player * Rudolf Höss Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; ; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he w ... (1901-1947), SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp See also * Hoss (surname) * Hess (surname) {{surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Crescentia Höss
Maria Crescentia Höss (Höß), TOR (1682–1744) was a religious sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. In 1900, she was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, and she was canonized in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Early life Anna Höss was born on 20 October 1682 in Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, Germany, to Matthias Höss and his wife, Lucia Hoermann, as the sixth of their eight children. Only three of the children survived into adulthood. Anna became a weaver, but her greatest ambition was to enter the local convent of the Tertiary Franciscans in Kaufbeuren, which occupied the old Meierhof of the town, in whose chapel she often prayed. As a poor weaver, however, her father did not have enough money to pay the customary dowry expected of a candidate, so she was not admitted. Monasteries of the Third Order Regular Unlike monasteries of the nuns of the Franciscan Second Order, known as the Poor Clares, the sisters of the Third Order were completely local, living under the authority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Höss
Otto Höss (4 June 1897 – 27 March 1971) was an Austrian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... player and manager who played as a forward. He made six appearances for the Austria national team from 1923 to 1926. References External links * 1897 births 1971 deaths Austrian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Austria men's international footballers Wiener Sport-Club players Wiener AF players DFC Prag players First Vienna FC players Szegedi AK players SK Slovan HAC players Austrian football managers Neuchâtel Xamax FCS managers ADO Den Haag managers Servette FC managers Gefle IF managers Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austrian expatriate football managers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; ; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he was convicted in Poland and executed for war crimes committed on the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and for his role in the Holocaust. Höss was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945). He tested and implemented means to accelerate Hitler's order to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution. On the initiative of one of his subordinates, Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced the pesticide Zyklon B to be used in gas chambers, where more than a million people were killed.Piper, Franciszek & Meyer, Fritjof"Overall analysis of the original sources and findings on deporta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoss (surname)
Hoss is the surname of: * Américo Hoss (1916–1990), Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer * Bernd Hoss (1939–2016), German football manager * Elijah Embree Hoss (1849–1919), American bishop * George W. Hoss (1824-1906), American educator * Hal E. Hoss (1892–1934), American journalist and politician * Luke Hoß (born 2001), German politician * Nina Hoss (born 1975), German actress and singer * Rudolf Höss Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; ; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he w ... (1901–1947), German Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp who was executed for war crimes * Selim Hoss (1929–2024), Lebanese politician {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hess (surname)
Hess or Heß, a German and Ashkenazic surname, meaning somebody originally from the region of Hesse. Two alternative origins have been reported. Usage in the south of Germany may arise from a contraction of the personal name ''Matthäus''. Notable people who share this surname include: * Adam Hess (born 1981), American basketball player * Adam Hess (comedian), British comedian * Alexander Hess (1898–1981), Czechoslovak war pilot part of No. 310 Squadron RAF *András Hess, Hungarian printer * Arthur Hess (SA general) (1891–1959), German SA general and politician * Beat W. Hess (born 1949), Swiss businessman * Bernhard Hess (born 1966), Swiss politician * Bernhard von Hess (1792–1869), Bavarian Lieutenant General and War Minister * Carl von Hess (1863–1923), German ophthalmologist * Catherina Hess, (born 1985), German actress * Charles R. Hess (1858–1928), American politician from Ohio *Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot, nerdcore rapper * Dean Hess (1917–2015), American A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
