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Vollmer
Vollmer is a family name. Notable people with the name include: *Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875), German landscape and marine painter and graphic artist *Andy Vollmer (born 1953), American lawyer and SEC General Counsel *Antje Vollmer (1943–2023), German politician *April Vollmer (born 1951), American artist and educator *Asher Vollmer (born 1989), American indie video game developer *August Vollmer (1876–1955), American police chief *Brian Vollmer (born 1955), Canadian singer *Clyde Vollmer (1921–2006), American baseball player *Dana Vollmer (born 1987), American swimmer *Edward Vollmer (1877–1939), American politician *Erika Vollmer (1925–2021), German tennis player *Erwin Vollmer (1884–1884), German painter and sculptor *Friedrich Vollmer (1867–1923), German classical philologist *Grace Vollmer (1884–1977), American painter *Gerhard Vollmer (born 1943), German physicist and philosopher *Günter Vollmer (1917–2004), German officer and Knight's Cross recip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Friedrich Vollmer
Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (17 December 1806 – 12 February 1875) was a German landscape and Marine art, marine painter and graphic artist. He and his contemporary, the painter Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern, Christian Morgenstern,Andresen (1872) 3, 25. were pioneers in Hamburg of early Realist visual arts, Realism in painting.Thieme-Becker (1940) 34, 527. Life A son of a bookkeeper to a Hamburg merchant, Vollmer grew up in humble circumstances. Determined to become a painter against the wishes of his father, he became an apprentice to the :de:Gebrüder Suhr, Suhr brothers who owned a graphic workshop producing panorama prints. Like Morgenstern before him, Vollmer travelled throughout Germany with one of the brothers, Cornelius Suhr, for a year and a half. In 1826 the Hamburg art dealer Ernst Harzen introduced him to Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, a wealthy aristocrat, who was a patron to many young Hamburg artists among them Morgenstern and Otto Speckter. Probably on Rumohr' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Vollmer
Gustavo Vollmer-Ravelo (died 29 August 1954) was a Cuban tennis player. He was of German descent. Vollmer appeared in three Davis Cup ties for Cuba, against Mexico and the United States in 1929, then Australia in 1932. His two career singles wins both came against Mexican players and he won a set against Harry Hopman Henry Christian Hopman Order of the British Empire, CBE (12 August 1906 – 27 December 1985) was an Australian tennis player and coach. Early life Harry Hopman was born on 12 August 1906 in Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe, Sydney as the third c ... when he played Australia. In Havana in 1930 he won the men's singles competition at the Central American and Caribbean Games. See also * List of Cuba Davis Cup team representatives References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vollmer, Gustavo Year of birth missing 1954 deaths Cuban male tennis players Cuban people of German descent Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis Central American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lula Vollmer
Lula Smith Vollmer (née Louisa Smith Vollmer; March 7, 1889 – May 2, 1955) was an American writer and dramatist, from North Carolina. Her work was mostly Folk drama, folk dramas and includes plays, short stories, and radio serials; and some of her plays were adapted to film. Vollmer is one of the first Americans who was devoted entirely to the creation of works about Appalachian Hillbilly, mountain people. Her best known plays were ''Sun-Up'' (1923), and ''The Shame Woman'' (1923). She was also known as Lulu Vollmer. Early life and education Louisa Smith Vollmer was born in 1889, in Keyser in Moore County, North Carolina, Moore County, North Carolina (what later became Addor, North Carolina), to parents Virginia (née Smith) and of William Sherman Vollmer. She travelled in the Southern United States with her machinist father who worked for lumber companies. She attended boarding school starting at age 8. Vollmer began writing narratives in her youth, with one of her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Vollmer
Lisa Vollmer (née Goßmann; 23 July 1937 – 29 November 2022) was a German social worker and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she served in the Landtag of Hesse The Landtag of Hesse () is the unicameral parliament of the State of Hesse in the Federal Republic of Germany. It convenes in the Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden. As a legislature it is responsible for passing laws at the state level and enacting ... from 1985 to 1999. Vollmer died on 29 November 2022 at the age of 85. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vollmer, Lisa 1937 births 2022 deaths Politicians from Kassel Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of Hesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Vollmer
Jürgen Vollmer (born 11 July 1939) is a German international photographer, best known for his association with The Beatles in Hamburg during the band's early career. Vollmer, along with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann (the " Exis"), befriended the band and were responsible for some of their most iconic images in their leather-clad days prior to Brian Epstein. Vollmer would go on to be a prominent photographer for films and celebrity photographer. Early life and Beatles In April 1961, a few months before he moved from his hometown of Hamburg to Paris, Vollmer photographed the then unknown Beatles as a student of photography. John Lennon would later use one of these photos in 1975 as the cover of his solo album ''Rock 'n' Roll''. Lennon wrote in his foreword to Vollmer's photo book ''Rock 'n' Roll Times'': "Jürgen Vollmer was the first photographer to capture the beauty and spirit of the Beatles. We tried very hard to find someone with his touch ..nobody could." The Beatl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Vollmer
Judith Vollmer (born 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and editor. She teaches privately, and in The Drew University MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation; and is Emerita Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh/Greensburg. Vollmer is the author of five full-length books of poetry, including most recently The Apollonia Poems (University of Wisconsin Press 2017).Vollmer co-founded '' 5 AM'', a national poetry journal which published twice yearly from 1984-2013. Three of her five full-length books are from the university press at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Judith Vollmer">University of Pittsburgh at Greenburg > Faculty Bio > Judith Vollmer Awards and honours Book publication awards include the Brittingham, the Cleveland State, and the Center for Book Arts (limited edition) prizes. She has won Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the American Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Vollmer
Joseph Vollmer (1871–1955) was a German automobile designer and engineer and a pioneering tank designer. As chief designer for the German War Department's motor vehicle section, he designed the World War I German tanks A7V, K-Wagen, LK I and LK II. Early life Born the son of a master locksmith, Vollmer grew up with three brothers in Baden-Baden. He attended the Municipal Trade School and after graduating in 1886 went to Cannstatt, to take up an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. In 1894 he completed his engineering studies at the Hochschule Mittweida, Technikum Mittweida in Saxony . Career Vollmer's career as an engineer and automobile pioneer began at Theodor Bergmann, Bergmann's automobile division in Gaggenau, beginning over 100 years of automobile construction in Gaggenau with the "Orient Express" automobile. In 1897 Vollmer moved to the Kühlstein, Kühlstein Wagenbau company of Berlin-Charlottenburg. From 1901, he worked for AEG (German compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Vollmer
General Jörg Vollmer (born 7 September 1957 in Bremen) is a retired German Army general and served as Commander of the NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum from April 2020 to June 2022. He was the Inspector of the Army from 2015 to 2020. Background Vollmer entered military service in 1978, and subsequently underwent officer training. Afterwards he studied organizational and economic science at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Armed Forces in Hamburg. Having entered field service in 1982, he held several commands in mechanized infantry units. In 1991, he attended the German general staff officer course and continued to work in the Federal Ministry of Defence, and earned his Master's Degree at the School of Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.https://www.chathamhouse.org/europe-conference/2019/speakers/jorg-vollmer# In 1995, he was made G3 officer (operations) with Armoured Brigade 14 which then was a part of the 5th Armoured Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Vollmer
Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) was an influential participant in the early Beat Generation circle. While a student at Barnard College, she became the roommate of Edie Parker (later married to Jack Kerouac). Their apartment became a gathering place for the Beats during the 1940s, where Vollmer was often at the center of marathon, all-night discussions. In 1946, she began a relationship with William S. Burroughs, later becoming his common-law wife. In 1951, Burroughs killed Vollmer. He claimed, and shortly thereafter denied, the killing was a drunken attempt at playing William Tell. Biography Joan Vollmer was born in Ossining, New York, and raised in Loudonville, New York. She graduated from St. Agnes School in 1939 and attended Barnard College in New York City on a scholarship, also studying journalism at Columbia University. Vollmer met Edie Parker at the West End Bar and the two moved in together in the first of a series of apartments in New York's U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Vollmer
Jana Vollmer (also known as Jana Vollmerová, née Pechová, born 5 May 1973 in Mladá Boleslav) is a female former beach volleyball player from Germany, who was born in Czechoslovakia. Her family were of minority Bohemian German descent. In 1994, she played as part of the Czech Republic women's national volleyball team, featuring in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, where the Czech Republic finished ninth. On club level she played with TSG Tübingen where she met her husband, German volleyball coach Andreas Vollmer, with both subsequently working at clubs in Switzerland for several years. Partnering Danja Müsch she claimed the silver medal for Germany at the 2000 European Championships in Bilbao, Spain. Playing partners * Andrea Ahmann * Danja Müsch * Ines Pianka * Ulrike Schmidt Ulrike Hermine Schmidt is a British psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London in London, where she is Professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Vollmer
Herbert "Herb" Eberhard Jordan Vollmer (February 15, 1895 – November 8, 1961) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in New York City, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. In 1920 he was a member of the American team in the Olympic water polo tournament. He played three matches. Four years later he won the bronze medal with the American water polo team. He played all five matches and scored three goals. In 1976, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. See also * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame is a history museum and hall of fame, serving as the central point for the study of the history of swimming in the United States and around the world. List of the members of the International Swimming Hall ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Vollmer
Henry Vollmer (July 28, 1867 – August 25, 1930) was an attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Davenport, Iowa, and as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district. Winning a special election in 1914, he served just over one year in Congress. Biography Born in Davenport, Vollmer attended the public schools of Davenport. Following graduation from high school, he travelled to Washington, D.C. to work as a distributing clerk of the Fiftieth Congress in 1887 and 1888. He studied law at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Early career He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Davenport. He served as member of the board of aldermen of Davenport in 1889, as mayor of Davenport from 1893 to 1897, and as a member of the board of education in Davenport from 1898 to 1901. He later became corporation counsel for Davenport in 1913 and 1914. Congress From 1911 to 1913, Io ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
