Schleicher Aircraft
   HOME





Schleicher Aircraft
Schleicher may refer to: *Schleicher (surname), a German surname *Schleicher County, Texas, a county in Texas, United States *Schleicher (Hammond), a neighborhood of Hammond, Indiana, United States See also *Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co, a sailplane manufacturer *August Schleicher, German comparative linguist *Kurt von Schleicher Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (; 7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German military officer and the penultimate Chancellor of Germany#First German Republic (Weimar Republic, 1919–1933), chancellor of Germany during the Weim ...
, penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic {{disambiguation, geo ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Schleicher (surname)
Schleicher is a German language, German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Schleicher (1901–1968), German sailplane designer * August Schleicher (1821–1868), German linguist * Bernard Pears, Bernard Schleicher, Austrian-born British businessman * Carl Schleicher (1825–1903), Austrian painter * Filip Schleicher (1870–1932), Polish-Jewish lawyer, deputy mayor of Lviv * Gustav Schleicher (1823–1879), German-American engineer and US congressman * Kurt von Schleicher (1882–1934), German general and chancellor * Nikita Shleikher (born 1998), Russian diver * Ruby Schleicher (born 1998), Australian rules footballer * Rüdiger Schleicher (1895–1945), German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime * Thomas Schleicher (1972–2001), Austrian judoka * Ursula Schleicher (born 1933), German politician and harpist {{surname German-language surnames ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Schleicher County, Texas
Schleicher County is a County (United States), county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 2,451. Its county seat is Eldorado, Texas, Eldorado. The county was created in 1887 and organized in 1901. It is named for Gustav Schleicher, a German immigrant who became a surveyor and politician.Lyman Wight's Mormon Colony in Texas
excerpt from "Mormon Trails" chapter in ''Hill Country'' travel guide by Richard Zelade. Accessed August 6, 2007.


History

Around 8000 BC, the first inhabitants in the area were probably Suma-Jumano, Jumano Indians. Later inhabitants were Lipan Apache people, Lipan Apaches and Comanches. In 1632, Fray Juan de Salas (friar), Juan de Salas and Father Juan de ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Schleicher (Hammond)
Schleicher is a small neighborhood in the southern portion of Hammond, IN. It is south of I-80/94, with US Route 41 (Indianapolis BLVD) bordering it to the east, Columbia AVE to the west, and the Little Calumet River to the south, separating Hammond from Munster, IN. Schleicher is also the home of Optimist Baseball Fields, located on the western side of the neighborhood where James Whitcomb Riley James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His ... Elementary (closed in 2005) once stood. Schleicher is dominated by standard slab, single family homes. Students in this neighborhood attend Frank O'Bannon Elementary and Donald E. Gavit Middle/High School. Others * South Hammond * Hammond, IN References {{LakeCountyIN-geo-stub Hammond, Indiana ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co
Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co is a major manufacturer of sailplanes located in Poppenhausen, near Fulda in Germany. It is also the oldest sailplane manufacturer in the world. History The company was founded in 1927 by Alexander Schleicher using money that he had won as a pilot in a gliding competition. It grew quickly in size and fame, producing many notable designs including the ''Anfänger ("Beginner")'', ''Zögling ("Student")'', ''Professor'', ''Mannheim'', and the ''Stadt Frankfurt (City of Frankfurt)''. Meanwhile, the aircraft produced under contract by the company continued to grow in size and complexity, reaching their pinnacle with the '' DFS Rhönadler (Rhön eagle)'' and '' DFS Rhönbussard (Rhön buzzard)'' designed by Hans Jacobs, and a huge, three-seat experimental glider built from a design by Alexander Lippisch for the '' Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (DFS - German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight). Production during WW2 By the time w ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


August Schleicher
August Schleicher (; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was ''A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages'' in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. To show how Indo-European might have looked, he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable, to exemplify the reconstructed vocabulary and aspects of Indo-European society inferred from it. Life Schleicher was born in Meiningen, in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 47 in Jena, in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in present-day Thuringia. Career Schleicher was educated at the University of Tübingen and Bonn and taught at the Charles University in Prague and the University of Jena. He began his career studying theology and Oriental langua ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]