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Heini
Heini is both a given name and a surname. It is mainly a masculine given name in German-speaking countries, but a feminine given name in Finland. However, in Wales, it is a both masculine and feminine given name, meaning 'healthy and spirited'. Currently, in Wales, it is more commonly recognised as a female given name. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name * Heini Adams (born 1980), South African rugby union player * Heini Becker (born 1935), Australian politician * Heini Bock (born 1981), Namibian rugby union player * Heini Brüggemann, German sprint canoeist * Heini Dittmar (1911–1960), German glider pilot * Heini Halberstam (1927–2014), British mathematician * Heini Hediger (1908–1992), Swiss biologist * Heini Hemmi (born 1949), Swiss alpine skier * Heini Klopfer (1918–1968), German ski jumper and architect * Heini Koivuniemi (born 1973), Finnish strongwoman competitor * Heini Lohrer (1918–2011), Swiss ice hockey player * Heini Meng (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Vatnsdal
Heini Vatnsdal (born 18 October 1991) is a Faroese professional football player. He currently plays for B36 Tórshavn and for the Faroe Islands national football team. He plays as a defender. Vatnsdal has also played for the youth teams of the Faroe Islands: Faroe Islands U21 U17 and U15. Vatnsdal has scored goals for Faroe Islands U15 and U17 teams. Career Club Vatnsdal started his football career on the southernmost of the islands of the Faroe Islands, Suðuroy, where he played for FC Suðuroy until he signed a contract in 2013 with HB Tórshavn, where he played for three seasons. In 2015 he moved to Denmark to study as well as to play football. He signed a contract with the Copenhagen club Fremad Amager which played in the second best tier in Danish football. At that time he had played six matches for the Faroe Islands national team. He played for the club for five years and played 105 matches for the club in 1. division. Hans last match for Fremad Amager was against Vejle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Hediger
Heini Hediger (30 November 1908 – 29 August 1992) was a Swiss biologist noted for work in proxemics in animal behavior and is known as the "father of zoo biology". Hediger was formerly the director of Tierpark Dählhölzli (1938–1943), Zoo Basel (1944–1953) and Zürich Zoo (1954–1973). Psychology Hediger described a number of standard interaction distances used in one form or another between animals. Two of these are flight distance and critical distance, used when animals of different species meet, whereas others are personal distance and social distance, observed during interactions between members of the same species. Hediger's biological social distance theories were used as a basis for Edward T. Hall's 1966 anthropological social distance theories. In the 1950s, psychologist Humphry Osmond developed the concept of socio-architecture hospital design, such as was used in the design of the Weyburn mental hospital in 1951, based partly on Hediger's spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Klopfer
Heinrich "Heini" Klopfer (3 April 1918 in Oberstdorf – 18 November 1968) was a German ski jumper and architect. At age 17, Klopfer was selected for trials for the 1936 Winter Olympics, but failed to qualify. After World War II Klopfer, Sepp Weiler and Toni Brutscher became known as the Oberstdorf Jumping Trio. He started working with construction of ski jumping hill. Kopfler has designed or been adviser for more than 250 hills. Main designs included all Olympic jumps used between 1960 and 1976, and he even designed one of the reconstructions of Holmenkollbakken in Oslo. He also was the ski jumping technical commissioner for the International Ski Federation. He died of a heart attack at the age of 50. In 1970, Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze in Oberstdorf, one of the world's five ski flying Ski flying is a winter sport discipline derived from ski jumping, in which much greater distances can be achieved. It is a form of competitive individual sport, individual Nordic skiing wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Otto
Heini Otto (born 24 August 1954) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently working as a technical coach at Ajax. Club career FC Amsterdam Born and raised in Jordaan, in Amsterdam, he eventually began his career playing for FC Amsterdam in 1974 following a period at ASC SDW. He made his debut in professional football on September 15, 1974, when he came on for Gerard van der Lem in a match against HFC Haarlem. He played in the UEFA Cup in his debut season. After victories against Inter Milan and Fortuna Düsseldorf, his side were eliminated by 1. FC Köln in the quarter-finals. He finished three seasons with the club 9th, 16th and 15th in the Eredivisie. FC Twente He completed a move to FC Twente, replacing Arnold Mühren who had recently departed to Ipswich Town. In the 1978-79 season he played in the sides first leg draw against Manchester City in the UEFA Cup. In the same season his side were runners up in the KNVB Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Wathén
Heini Wathén-Fayed (' Wathén; born 24 February 1955) is a Finnish socialite and former model. She is the widow of Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed. She was an officer for The Ritz Hotel, London. Modeling career Heini Wathén signed with a modelling agency after winning several beauty pageants in Finland at 17 years old. She graduated from secondary school in 1975 and joined her sister in Paris as a model. She returned to Finland two years later to compete in the Miss Finland contest, but did not make it to the finals. During the Miss Finland contest, Wathén met Dodi Fayed, who was looking for new models in Finland. Fayed arranged for Wathén to model for Pierre Balmain's fashion house. Personal life In Paris, Dodi Fayed introduced Wathén to his father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, who began a relationship with her. Al-Fayed soon invited Wathén to live with him on Park Lane in London. The couple married in 1985, thus Heini Wathén-Fayed became a stepmother to Dodi Fayed. Wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Koivuniemi
Heini Koivumieni (born 1973) is a Finnish strongwoman competitor who has achieved numerous podium finishes at the World's Strongest Woman contest. Koivuniemi competed five times in the World's Strongest Woman contests, finishing 2nd in 2001, and third in 2002 and 2003. Koivuniemi has also won Europe's Strongest Woman in 2002, and Finland's Strongest Woman in 2001 and 2003. Heini was featured in a BBC documentary film entitled "Strongwomen" in 2002. The film documented the training leading up to the 2002 World's Strongest Woman contest, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the actual contest itself. The film also featured American Jill Mills and 2 British competitors including 2002 runner-up Abbey Haigh from Scotland. Koivuniemi holds a Guinness world record for throwing a beer keg for height, she threw a beer keg over a bar at a height of 3.46 meters (11 ft 4.2in). Heini also won the 1999 Ms. Galaxy Europe contest in Kokkola, Finland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Halberstam
Heini Halberstam (11 September 1926 – 25 January 2014) was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is remembered in part for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture from 1968. Life and career Halberstam was born in Most, Czechoslovakia and died in Champaign, Illinois, US. His father died when he was very young. After Adolf Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland, he and his mother moved to Prague. At the age of twelve, as the Nazi occupation progressed, he was one of the 669 children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the Kindertransport, a train that allowed those children to leave Nazi-occupied territory. He was sent to England, where he lived during World War II. He obtained his PhD in 1952, from University College, London, under the supervision of Theodor Estermann. From 1962 until 1964, Halberstam was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin; From 1964 until 1980, Halberstam was a Professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Müller (footballer, Born 1934)
Heini Müller (born 18 February 1934 in Roth, Bavaria) is a former German footballer. Müller made 43 appearances for 1. FC Nürnberg in the Bundesliga during his playing career. Müller's son, Bernd Müller (born 1963), was also a footballer, while his grandson, Jim-Patrick (born 1989), plays for SpVgg Unterhaching Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league .... References External links * 1934 births Living people People from Roth (district) Footballers from Middle Franconia German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Bundesliga players 1. FC Nürnberg players West German men's footballers {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Walter
Henrich "Heini" Walter (28 July 1927 – 12 May 2009) was a Swiss racing driver. He participated in one Formula One Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one ... World Championship Grand Prix, on 5 August 1962. He finished 14th, scoring no World Championship points. He also participated in non-Championship Formula One races. Complete Formula One World Championship results ( key) References External links Tribute to Heini Walter 1927 births 2009 deaths 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers Swiss Formula One drivers Scuderia Filipinetti Formula One drivers Swiss racing drivers World Sportscar Championship drivers {{Switzerland-autoracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Dittmar
Heini Dittmar (March 30, 1912 in Bad Kissingen – April 28, 1960 near Mülheim an der Ruhr, West Germany) was a record-breaking German glider pilot. Inspired by the example of his glider flying brother Edgar, Dittmar took an apprenticeship at the German Institute for Gliding (DFS). In 1932, flying his self-built glider '' Condor I'', he won a first prize at the Rhön Glider Competition. Dittmar then became a research pilot. In 1934, he, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, and Wolf Hirth were members of Professor Georgii's South American Glider Expedition,Reitsch, H., 1955, The Sky My Kingdom, London: Biddles Limited, Guildford and King's Lynn, where in Argentina he achieved a new world gliding altitude record (about ). Later the same year, he achieved a new world record for long-distance using a '' Fafnir II'' and was awarded the Hindenburg Cup. In 1936, he achieved the first crossing of the Alps in a glider. He then crowned his career as a glider pilot by becoming the first Gli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
