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Becker
Becker () is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family). In northern Germany, it can also derive from the word ''Beck'' for ''Bach'' ("creek" or "brook") to denote origin. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 55.3% of all known bearers of the surname ''Becker'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:287), 24.7% of the United States (1:2,891), 8.0% of Brazil (1:5,052), 2.7% of France (1:4,987), 2.0% of South Africa (1:5,431) and 1.2% of Canada (1:6,120). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:287) in the following states: * 1. Saarland (1:84) * 2. Rhineland-Palatinate (1:123) * 3. Hesse (1:159) * 4. North Rhine-Westphalia (1:226) * 5. Saxony-Anhalt (1:248) People Surname * Alan Becker (born 1989), U.S. animator, YouTuber * Alan S. Becker (1946–2020), American lawyer and politician * Albert Becker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (; born 22 November 1967) is a German former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Becker won 49 career singles and 15 doubles titles, including six singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors: three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and one US Open (tennis), US Open. He also won 13 Tennis Masters Series records and statistics, Masters titles, three Open Era tennis records – men's singles#Year-end championships, year-end championships, an Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, Olympic gold medal in men's doubles in 1992, and led Germany Davis Cup team, Germany to two Davis Cup titles in 1988 Davis Cup World Group, 1988 and 1989 Davis Cup World Group, 1989. Becker is the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles Wimbledon title, a feat he accomplished aged 17 in 1985 Wimbledon Championships – Men's sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Becker
Alfred Becker (20 August 1899 – 26 December 1981) was a German engineer and artillery officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. During the Second World War he took captured British and French vehicles and refurbished and rebuilt them to supply the German army with armoured fighting vehicles. With his engineering and organizational skills, he converted the Hotchkiss plant on the outskirts of Paris into a vehicle modification and fabrication center. He used the vehicles to motorize German guns, rocket launchers and mortars. Working with Altmärkische Kettenwerk Gmbh (Alkett), steel shielding was shipped from Germany to armour the vehicles. The men from his artillery command did the metal work and conversion on 1,800 recovered vehicles. During the winter of 1943-44 Becker's work focused on equipping the 21st Panzer Division. He used the tracked carriages of French light tanks to mobilize the 7.5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun and the 10.5 cm leFH 18 howitzer. Beck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Becker
August Becker (17 August 1900 – 31 December 1967) was a mid-ranking functionary in the Schutzstaffel, SS of Nazi Germany and chemist in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He helped design the vans with a gas chamber built into the back compartment used in early Nazi mass murder of disabled people, political dissidents, Jews, and other "racial enemies", including Action T4 as well as the Einsatzgruppen (mobile Nazi death squads) in the Nazi-occupied portions of the Soviet Union. Generally his role was to provide important technical support, but on at least one occasion he personally gassed about 20 people. Early life August Becker was born on 17 August 1900 in Staufenberg, Hesse, Staufenberg in the German state of Hesse. He was the son of a factory owner. He was inducted into the German Army towards the end of World War I. Afterwards, Becker studied chemistry and physics at the University of Giessen where, in 1933, he earned a PhD degree in chemistry. From 1933 to 1935, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisson Becker
Álisson Ramsés Becker (born 2 October 1992), better known as Alisson Becker or simply Alisson, is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for club Liverpool F.C., Liverpool and the Brazil national football team, Brazil national team. Known for his reflexes, shot-stopping ability, and positioning, he is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. Alisson joined SC Internacional, Internacional's academy in 2002, progressing through the youth set up before making his senior debut in 2013. During his four years with Internacional's senior side, Alisson won the Campeonato Gaúcho title in each season. He signed for AS Roma, Roma in July 2016 and was awarded Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year in 2017–18 Serie A, 2017–18. In July 2018, Liverpool signed Alisson for a fee of £66.8 million (€72.5 million), making him the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker (born 16 June 1981) is a German former professional tennis player. He is most known for defeating former world No. 1 Andre Agassi in the third round at the 2006 US Open, in Agassi's last match as a professional player. Becker has reached a career-high ATP ranking of No. 35 in singles on 27 October 2014, and No. 58 in doubles on 5 July 2010. Becker is not related to German compatriot and former professional tennis player Boris Becker. Early life and family Benjamin Becker was born on 16 June 1981 in Merzig, West Germany, to Jörg, a tax office worker, and Ulrike. Becker has one younger sister. From 2001 to 2005, Becker played tennis at Baylor University, winning the NCAA singles championship as a junior in 2004 and leading the Bears to the team title that year. In 2005, the team finished runner-up at the NCAA tournament and won the ITA team indoor championship. He is the school's all-time leader in singles and doubles wins. A rarity in men's tennis, Becker a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Becker
Alan Becker is an American online animator, YouTuber and artist best known for creating the '' Animator vs. Animation'' web series and the spin-off ''Animation vs.'' franchise, in particular the web series ''Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts.'' Early life and education Becker was born in Dublin, Ohio. He graduated from Scioto High School in 2007, and attended Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating in 2013. When he was growing up, Becker experimented with pixel art on his family's computer in 2001. Two of Becker's favorite animated short films were the 1953 ''Looney Tunes'' short '' Duck Amuck'' and the 1959 adaptation of ''Harold and the Purple Crayon'', both of which contained animated characters using their surroundings to draw things out, which would become major inspirations for his later works. Becker received his first laptop in 2005, an Acer TravelMate, which he used to begin animating using Macromedia Flash (currently known as Adobe Animate). His first offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Becker
Albrecht Becker (14 November 1906 – 22 April 2002) was a German production designer, photographer, and actor who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime for the charge of homosexuality. Personal life Born in Thale, Germany, Becker trained as a teacher. At age eighteen, he began a relationship with the Director of the State Archive in Würzburg, Joseph Friedrich Abert, an older man. The relationship lasted ten years. Through this contact, he met an array of influential and artistic people. He was an actor and production designer. Later in life, he devoted himself completely to photography. While living in Freiburg and Vienna, he showed his first exhibitions and earned his first commissions. He supplemented his income by providing photographs for newspapers and magazines. Würzburg Würzburg is a city in the southern state of Bavaria. Living in Würzburg in the 1930s was a Jewish wine merchant by the name of Dr Leopold Obermayer, who apparently complained to the local police de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Becker
Artur Becker (12 May 1905 – 16 May 1938) was a German communist and functionary of the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD), as well as a participant in the Spanish Civil War. Biography Born into a working-class family, Becker's father was active in the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD). After graduating from elementary school in Remscheid, Becker was trained as a locksmith and lathe operator. As a youth, he joined the Free Socialist Youth in 1919, the Young Communist League (KJVD) in 1920, and the Communist Party (KPD) in 1922. During the occupation of the Ruhr area in 1923 he was involved in active resistance. From 1926 he worked as a politician, first as leader of the communist youth on the Lower Rhine from 1926 to 1928, from 1928 as a member of the executive committee of the Communist Youth International, and from 1931 to 1932 as chairman of the central committee of the KJVD. In 1930 he was elected to the Reichstag on the Reich election proposal of the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Becker
Bill Becker (November 10, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois – January 27, 2010 in Santa Monica, California) was an American journalist noted for his coverage of nuclear weapons tests, political campaigns, scientific advances, and major sporting events. He covered over 25 Rose Bowls and five World Series. Education Becker attended the College of the Pacific, now the University of the Pacific (UOP) in Stockton, California. While there he played football under the legendary coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. Career Following his graduation, Becker started his journalism career at the ''Arizona Republic''. In 1944, he joined the Associated Press and covered numerous atomic tests. In 1956, he began a long career at ''The New York Times'' which resulted in over 600 articles. In 1957, he spent five months in Antarctica as a ''Times'' reporter during the International Geophysical Year. From 1964 to 1966, he worked as writer for Universal Studios, returning to journalism in 1966 as a science writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britta Becker
Britta Christiane Becker-Kerner ( Becker, born 11 May 1973 in Rüsselsheim) is a German former field hockey midfield player. Becker made her debut in the German women's field hockey team in 1991 and was one of the youngest members in the Olympic squad in 1992. She was part of the 1995 bronze medal winning team in the European Cup and the bronze medal-winning team in the 1998 World Cup. She retired in 2004, just before her team won the Olympic gold medal in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe .... She has four children, Emily Blooma (*1999), Nik David (*2001), Polly Marie (*2007) and Jilly Lina (*2009). References External links * * * * 1973 births Living people Sportspeople from Rüsselsheim German female field hockey players Field hockey playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Becker
Ben Becker (born 19 December 1964) is a German film, theatre and voice actor. Biography Becker was born in Bremen, the son of actress Monika Hansen and actor Rolf Becker. He is the brother of actress Meret Becker and the stepson of Otto Sander. His grandmother was the comedian Claire Schlichting. Becker is Jewish through his maternal grandmother Claire Schlichting's father who was a Jewish merchant from Wuppertal. As a child, Becker participated in radio dramas and had several small roles in films. Between 1985 and 1987 he trained as an actor in the Berliner Schaubühne theatre. His first contract was with Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. Later he joined the Staatstheater Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Theatre), where he was mostly remembered for his role (1991–1992) as Ferdinand in Schiller's ''Kabale und Liebe, Intrigue and Love''. Later, he worked with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and played the role of Tybalt in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet'' in the Deutschen Schaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Becker (painter)
August Becker (27 January 1821, Darmstadt - 19 December 1887, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work He began his studies in 1837, with the court painter, Johann Heinrich Schilbach. His first study trips took him through Fischbachtal, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Rüdesheim and the Nahe (Rhein), Nahe region. In 1840, he attended the landscape painting classes taught by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He remained there after completing his courses, because Düsseldorf provided a profitable market for his art. In 1844 and 1847, together with and Georg Saal, he visited Norway; painting a series of fjordscapes.Nadja Putzert: ''Der Blick nach Norden. Skandinavische Landschaften in der deutschen Malerei von der Mitte des 19. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Saarbrücken 2008, In 1854, he stayed in London for several weeks to study the museums. His brother, , had been serving there as a librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
