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Renate Johne
Renate is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Latin name Renatus. It is common in German, Dutch and Norwegian. Notable people with the given name include: * Renate Aschauer-Knaup (born 1948), German singer (Amon Düül II) * Renate Blauel, music engineer, married to Elton John * Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), Dutch writer, journalist and feminist * Renate Gebhard (born 1977), Italian jurist and politician * Renate Götschl (born 1975), Austrian alpine skier * Renate Groenewold (born 1976), Dutch speed skater * Renate Hellwig (born 1940), German politician * Renate Holub (born 1946), German political philosopher and social theorist * Renate Kamener (1933–2009), Australian educator * Renate Klein (born 1945), Australian writer, publisher and feminist health activist * Renate Künast (born 1955), German Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, 2001–2005 * Renāte Lāce (1943–1967), Latvian track and field athlete *Renate Loll (born 1962), Dutch physi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renatus
Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" ("natus" = "born"). The name has a spiritual meaning, i.e., to be born again with baptism, i.e., from water and the Holy Spirit. It was extensively adopted by early Christians in ancient Rome, due to the importance of baptism. The onomastic is Saint Renatus, a martyr, Bishop of Sorrento in the 5th century, who is celebrated on 6 October. In Persian Mithraism, which spread widely in the West as a religion of the soldiers and officials under the Roman Empire, persons initiated into its mysteries were designated ''renatus'' (with the meaning of ''Regeneration (theology), regenerated''). Notable people with this forename include: * Renatus Cartesius (1596–1650), also known as René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer * Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Later Roman Empire writer (4th century) * Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, historian (5th century) * Renatus of Châlon (1519–1544), P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Loll
Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962, Aachen) Is a German physicist. She is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She previously worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University. She received her Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, in 1989. In 2001 she joined the permanent staff of the ITP, after spending several years at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu .... With Jan Ambjørn and Polish physicist Jerzy Jurkiewicz she helped develop a new approach to nonperturbative quantum gravity, quantization of gravity, that of Causal dynamical triangulation, Causal Dynamical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accepted definition of the term, and it has been applied variously to Jews who survived the war in German-occupied Europe or other Axis powers, Axis territories, as well as to those who fled to Allies (World War II), Allied and Neutral powers during World War II, neutral countries before or during the war. In some cases, non-Jews who also experienced collective persecution under the Nazi regime are considered Holocaust survivors as well. The definition has evolved over time. Survivors of the Holocaust include those persecuted civilians who were still alive in the Nazi concentration camps, concentration camps when they were liberated at the end of the war, or those who had either Jewish pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Rose Wiesel
Marion Rose Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; January 27, 1931 – February 2, 2025) was an Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator. She was married to author and fellow Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 14 of whose books she translated from French into English. The most important of them was her translation of his book ''Night (memoir), Night'', based on his Holocaust experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camp, Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps, concentration camps. In 2001, she was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by U.S. president Bill Clinton, and in 2007 she was named a ''Legion of Honour, Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur'' by French president Jacques Chirac. Early life and education Wiesel was born Mary Renate Erster in Vienna, Austria, on January 27, 1931. Her mother, Jetta (Hubel) Erster, chose the name Mary out of a love of Americana (culture), Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Renate Bernadotte
Silvia (born Silvia Renate Sommerlath; 23 December 1943) is Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She has held this title since her marriage to Carl XVI Gustaf in 1976. The king and queen have three children: Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Carl Philip, and Princess Madeleine. Childhood and parentage Silvia Renate Sommerlath was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on 23 December 1943, the only daughter of Alice (née Soares de Toledo) and Walther Sommerlath. Her father was German and her mother Brazilian. She has one older brother, Ralf Sommerlath (born 1929). Her other brothers were Walther Sommerlath, who died in 2020, and Jörg Sommerlath, who died in 2006. The Mother-Child House Jörg Sommerlath in Berlin, operated by Queen Silvia's World Childhood Foundation, is named after her brother. She attended grammar school in Düsseldorf, finishing her Abitur in 1963; and attended the Munich School of Interpreting from 1965 to 1969, majoring in Spanish. She has some fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Von Natzmer
Renate von Natzmer (1898 in Borkow (Kreis Schlawe, Pomerania) – February 18, 1935 in Berlin) was a German noblewoman who worked for the army during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. She also worked for Polish intelligence. In the early 1930s, she met Polish agent major Jerzy Sosnowski and she became, like her friend Benita von Falkenhayn, his lover. They were arrested for spying and treason. Von Falkenhayn and von Natzmer were found guilty and sentenced to death. Two days later, after appeals for clemency had been turned down, they became two of the last people in Germany to be beheaded with an axe. Their execution was carried out by Carl Gröpler at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. In 1938, Adolf Hitler decreed that future executions should be by hanging or the guillotine A guillotine ( ) is an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by Decapitation, beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade sus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Tobies
Renate A. Tobies (born January 25, 1947) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics known for her biographies of Felix Klein and Iris Runge. Education and career Tobies grew up in East Germany, and studied mathematics and chemistry at Leipzig University. She completed a doctoral dissertation (Dr. paed.) on the history of chemistry education, ''Die Entwicklung des allgemeinbildenden Chemieunterrichts auf dem Gebiet der DDR unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ideologischen Erziehung (1945 bis zum VIII. Parteitag der SED)'', there in 1975. After briefly teaching pharmacy, she took a position in Leipzig's Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences, specializing in the history of mathematics. She completed her habilitation there, and earned a second doctorate (Dr.sc.) in 1986 with a dissertation ''Die gesellschaftliche Stellung deutscher mathematischer Organisationen und ihre Funktion bei der Veränderung der gesellschaftlichen Wirksamkeit der Mathemati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher (, ; née Meißner, born 12 May 1950) is a German (former East German) sprint runner and a triple Olympic champion. She held 34 world records and was the first woman to run 100 metres within 11 seconds. Biography Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon. She debuted internationally at the 1969 European Championships, where she – as a last minute substitute – won a silver medal in the 200 m and a gold in the 4 × 100 m relay. In 1970 she was the World Student Games Champion in both the 100 and 200 metres. Renate won five national 100m titles 1970-75. She also won the 200 on 4 occasions. At the next European Championships, in 1971, she won both the 100 and 200 m and the silver in the relay. At that time, she was already competing as Renate Stecher, having married hurdler Gerd Stecher the previous year. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, Stecher repeated that performance. She won the 100 m in ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Sommer
Renate Sommer (born 10 September 1958) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2019. She was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. Member of the European Parliament Between 1999 and 2009, Sommer served on the European Parliament Committee on Transport and Tourism, Committee on Transport and Tourism. From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. From 2014 to 2019, she was a member of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. From 2014 to 2019, Sommer served as the president of the European Parliament Beer Club. In 2010 she was the rapporteur of the directive on food labelling and she opposes any EU-wide approach to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Schmidt
Schmidt in 2014 Renate Schmidt (' Pokorny; born 12 December 1943 in Hanau) is a German Social Democratic politician. Early life Schmidt grew up in Coburg, Fürth, and Nuremberg. Due to a pregnancy at the age of 17, she was forced to leave school a year before she would have received her Abitur. Her future husband, Gerhard Schmidt († 1984), with the assistance of both their families, supported her in raising the child while he attended university. In 1963 and 1970, she bore two more children. In 1974 her husband gave up his work as an architect, as her salary was bigger than his. Unusual for those times, he took charge of the household and cared for the children. Labor and political career Having worked at Quelle AG for quite a while, Schmidt was elected to the company's works council in 1972; she was not required to work from 1973 to 1980, because of this. From 1980 to 1988, she was the Bavarian state chairwoman of the labor union HBV ; meaning Labor Union Trade, Banks and In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Reinsve
Renate Reinsve (; born 24 November 1987) is a Norwegian actress. She made her film debut in the Joachim Trier film ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011). Her breakout role came in Trier's romantic drama ''The Worst Person in the World (film), The Worst Person in the World'' (2021), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She has since starred in the Apple TV+ legal thriller series ''Presumed Innocent (TV series), Presumed Innocent'', the A24 satirical film ''A Different Man'', and the thriller ''Armand (film), Armand'' (all 2024). She reunited with Trier for the film ''Sentimental Value'' (2025). Early life Born in Solbergelva in 1987 and educated at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Reinsve then joined the Trøndelag Teater. After being expelled from school at 16, Reinsve left Norway for Scotland and stayed in a hostel in Edinburgh. Running out of money, she was given a job in the bar of the host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
