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Krüger
Krüger, Krueger, Kreuger‘’’’ or Kruger (without the umlaut ü) are German surnames originating from '' Krüger'', meaning tavern-keeper in Low German and potter in Central German and Upper German, both associated with the Germanic word wikt:Krug, "jug". Notable people with the surname include: People * Adalbert Krueger (1832–1896), German astronomer * Alan Krueger (1960–2019), American economist * Alex Kruger (born 1963), English Olympic decathlete * Alma Kruger (1871–1960), American stage and film actress * Anne Osborn Krueger (born 1934), American economist * Anton Robert Krueger (born 1971), South African writer * Ashlyn Krueger (born 2004), American tennis player * Barbara Kruger (born 1945), American conceptual artist * Bernhard Krüger (1904–1989), German SS officer and counterfeiter * Bob Krueger (1935–2022), American politician * Bradley Kruger (born 1988), Dutch cricketer * Carl Kruger (born 1949), American politician * Clifford Krueger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German paramilitary commander in charge of, and personally involved in progressive annihilation of the Polish nation, its culture, its heritage and its wealth, and never sentenced for his war crimes. Long before the war he was a high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government, giving him command of all police and security forces in German-occupied Poland. In this capacity, he organized and supervised numerous crimes against humanity and had major responsibility for the German genocide of the Polish nation: the extermination of six million Poles (three million of them Polish Jews) and massive destruction, degradation and impoverishment of the Polish state. He took his own life in May 1945. Career Krüger was born in 1894 into a military family in Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, then part of the German Empire (today, Strasbourg, France) He and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Krüger
Facundo Nicolás Krüger (born 5 June 2000) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a striker for Barracas Central, on loan from Temperley. Club career Born in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Krüger was with Arsenal de Sarandí, and Tristán Suárez before joining Cañuelas in February 2018. In November of the same year, he made his debut with the first team against Deportivo Armenio under Roberto Sosa. He scored the goal with which Cañuelas won the 2019 Apertura of the Primera C. He also was a member of the squad that got promotion to the Primera B Metropolitana in the 2020 Transición of the Primera C. In March 2021, he was loaned out to Chilean club Deportes Valdivia. In the 2023 season, he was loaned out to Temperley with an option to buy. After his loan ended, he was permanently transferred to Temperley on a deal for three years. On 29 June 2024, he joined Barracas Central Club Atlético Barracas Central is an Argentine professional association football, foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Krüger
Franz Krüger (10 September 1797, in Großbadegast, Köthen, Anhalt – 21 January 1857, in Berlin), known as Pferde-Krüger ("Horse-Krüger"), was a German (Prussian) painter and lithographer. He was best known for his romantic and lively portraits and pictures of horses, which made him the most in demand military and portrait painter in Berlin. His paintings of military parades and hundreds of portraits led to him painting many of the "well to do" of the city. Life Krüger was the son of a nobleman, and his friendship with the ornithologist Johann Friedrich Naumann from the neighbouring town of Ziebigk led him into animal painting. During his school days in Dessau, he came into contact with the landscape painter . Krüger studied in 1812–13 at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, and then continued to hone his skills independently by drawing from life, particularly in the Prussian royal stables. In 1818, his military and hunting paintings were exhibited at the acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Krüger
__NOTOC__ Bernhard Krüger (; 26 November 1904 – 3 January 1989) was a member of the NSDAP, SS ''Sturmbannführer'' (Major) during World War II, and leader of the Department VI F 4a, part of the SD-foreign branch in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). This office of the Nazi Party Security Service (SD) was responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents. Within the setting of Operation Bernhard, the SD forged pound notes in great numbers, funding Nazi Germany with £600 million in high-quality counterfeit currency (worth approx. $6 billion 2009). This counterfeiting operation was named after Krüger, who led the operation from a segregated factory built at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, manned by 142 Jewish inmates. The pound counterfeiting operation ended in 1944. However Krüger succeeded in establishing a new operation to forge American dollar notes. In May 1945 his team of prisoners were transferred to Ebensee concentration camp in Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Kruger
Fred Kruger (born Johan Friedrich Carl Kruger; 18 April 1831 – 15 February 1888) was a German-born photographer noted for his early photography of landscape and indigenous peoples in Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia. Migration to Australia from Germany Kruger was born of a working-class family on 18 April 1831, at 16 Steingassestrasse, Berlin, Germany, and was baptised Johān Friedrich Carl Krüger. He was an upholsterer and, in 1858, married Auguste Wilhelmine Elisabeth Bauman at Friedrichswerder Church, Friedrichwerder Church in Berlin. It is thought that his wife and son migrated to Victoria, Australia on 23 April 1863, some time after his own arrival. He initially joined a partnership in a furniture business that his brother Bernard had established at Rutherglen, Australia, Rutherglen in 1854. Kruger subsequently became the sole owner of the business, but then sold it before 1866, when he set up as cabinetmaker in Taradale, Victoria, Taradale. Photographic car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Krueger
Felix Krueger (or Krüger) (10 August 1874 in Posen – 25 February 1948 in Basel) was a German psychologist and philosopher. He was a student of Wilhelm Wundt (who is regarded as the father of psychology). From 1912 to 1913, Krueger was an exchange professor at Columbia University and after returning to Germany in 1917, he succeeded Wundt at the University of Leipzig, where he founded the second Leipzig school of psychology, whose principles were based on a genetic psychology of wholeness and structure (genetische Ganzheits- und Strukturpsychologie). His most noteworthy achievement is "Das Wesen der Gefühle", Leipzig 1928, (translated as "The Essence of Feeling", Worcester, MA: Clark University Press, 1928) In 1929 he belonged to the founding members of Alfred Rosenberg's Militant League for German Culture. When the Nazis seized power in 1933 Krueger wrote: “This is not only about the future of Germany. Ethics and thus the life of the white race are at stake.” The Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Krüger
Erwin Krüger Urroz (November 2, 1915 in León, Nicaragua – July 28, 1973 in Managua) was a Nicaraguan folklore poet and singer. He was born in León, Nicaragua León () is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. Founded by the Spanish as Santiago de los Caballeros de León, it is the capital and largest city of León Department. , the municipality of León has an estimated population of ... to a German father and Nicaraguan mother. References 20th-century Nicaraguan poets Nicaraguan male poets Nicaraguan people of German descent 1915 births 1973 deaths People from León, Nicaragua 20th-century Nicaraguan male singers 20th-century Nicaraguan male writers {{singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Krueger
Robert Charles Krueger (September 19, 1935 – April 30, 2022) was an American diplomat, politician, and U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Texas, a U.S. Ambassador, and a member of the Democratic Party. , he is the last Democrat to serve as a United States Senator from Texas. Early life and education Krueger was born in New Braunfels, Texas, the son of Faye (Leifeste) and Arlon E. Krueger. Krueger earned a B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1957 and an M.A. from Duke University in 1958. He went to Merton College, Oxford, earning a D.Phil. in English literature with a thesis entitled ''The poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke''. He taught English literature as a professor and was later vice provost and Dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. His edition of the poems of Sir John Davies was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1975. Krueger held business positions as chairman of the board of Comal Hosiery Mills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frantz Kruger
Frantz Kruger (born 22 May 1975 in Kempton Park, South Africa) is a South African born Finnish discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000. He is also a double African champion. His personal best throw of 70.32 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Salon-de-Provence, is the current African record. He was married to Finnish former triple jumper Heli Koivula Kruger (divorced 2016), and received Finnish citizenship in 2007. Kruger has been available to represent Finland by a special permit from the government of IAAF since 20 August 2007. In international discus competition at Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , ), is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania County, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, ninth ..., he set a new Finnish discus record, 69.97 metres. Competition record See also * List of eligibility transfers in athletics Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger (; Heidkrüger; ; born 15 July 1976) is a German actress. Early in her career, she gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. Kruger became known for her roles in films such as Helen in the epic war film ''Troy'' (2004), Dr. Abigail Chase in the heist film '' National Treasure'' (2004) and its 2007 sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's war film ''Inglourious Basterds'' (2009), and Gina in the psychological thriller film ''Unknown'' (2011). She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series '' The Bridge'' (2013–14). In 2017, she made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin's '' In the Fade'', for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. In 2019, Kruger starred in the spy-thriller '' The Operative'' with Martin Freeman. Early life Diane Heidkrüger was born on 15 July 1976. She grew up in a deeply Catholic German family, and attended Catholic scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Kruger
Debbie Kruger (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer. She wrote ''Songwriters Speak'' in August 2005, which contains interviews with 45 Australian and New Zealand songwriters about their craft. Kruger was the Sydney correspondent for weekly entertainment newspaper, ''Variety'', for three years with the moniker of krug. She works in public relations with her company Kruger PRofiles and in radio broadcasting, she has also worked as Manager of Communications for Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Biography Debbie Kruger was born in 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales, the first child of English-born Lou Kruger and Romanian-born Lisa Kruger ''née'' Berkowitz. She was brought up with younger sister Paula in the Jewish faith as members of the North Shore Synagogue. She attended primary school in a class group of seven children at Masada College, then secondary school with 200 students at Killara High School. She dropped out of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Woodcock
David Michael Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath. He gained notoriety for the murders of three young children in Toronto in the late 1950s, as well as for a murder in 1991 on his first day of unsupervised release from the psychiatric institution in which he had been incarcerated for his earlier crimes. An adopted child, Krueger lived in numerous foster homes as an infant and showed signs of severe emotional trauma when he found a permanent foster home at the age of 3. Unable to adjust to social situations, he was bullied by his peers. Krueger would often wander from his home by foot, bicycle or train to parts of Toronto, where he would molest dozens of children and ultimately murder three. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, he was sent to a psychiatric facility. Psychiatrists placed him in experimental treatment programs for psychopathy, but those treatment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
