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Egon
Egon is a Danish variant of the male given name Egino. It is most commonly found in Central and Northern Europe. Egon may refer to: People * Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1588–1635), Imperial Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1618–1635) and a military leader in the Thirty Years' War * Egon Bahr (1922–2015), German politician * Egon Bittner (1921–2011), American sociologist * Egon Bondy (1930–2007), Czech philosopher * Egon Coordes (born 1944), German footballer and coach * Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt (1892–1965), German physical anthropologist * Egon Eiermann (1904–1970), German architect * Egon Franke (fencer) (1935–2022), Polish Olympic fencer * Egon Franke (politician) (1913–1995), German politician * Egon Frid (born 1957), Swedish politician * Egon Friedell (1878–1938), Austrian writer * Egon Guttman (1927–2021), German-American legal scholar * Egon Hirt (born 1960), German alpine skier * Egon Jensen (politician) (1922–1985), Danis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Eiermann
Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 19 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Biography Eiermann was born in (now part of Babelsberg, Potsdam), the son of Wilhelm Eiermann (1874–1948), a locomotive engineer and his wife Emma Gellhorn (1875–1959). He archived his Abitur at the Althoff-Gymnasium and studied architecture at Technische Universität Berlin. From 1925 to 1928, he was master student of Hans Poelzig. After graduating in 1928, he gained professional experience in the construction departments of Karstadt AG in Hamburg and the Berlin electricity works (). From 1931 to 1945, he was an independent architect in Berlin and initially planned residential buildings. Before World War II he had an office with fellow architect . During the Nazi era, he mainly cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Bittner
Egon Bittner (April 16, 1921 – May 7, 2011) was an American sociologist who contributed to the sociology of policing. He was born into a Jewish family in Skřečoň, a village in Silesia, an historically much-disputed part of Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic. He died in the Bay Area of San Francisco, leaving a wife, Jean (Szeina Blacharowicz) and two children, Debora Seys and Tom Bittner. Early life In 1939 Bittner worked as a reporter for a small newspaper in Kraków in the south of Poland. In the September of that year, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic and the Soviet Union. The invasion marked the beginning of World War II and inaugurated the Holocaust. As a Jew, and along with his future wife and her two sisters, Bittner was arrested and incarcerated for the whole of the war. He later attributed his survival of the concentration camp to his practical skills that he believed the SS officers under whom he worked valued. Education and academic ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Friedell
Egon Friedell (born Egon Friedmann; 21 January 1878, Vienna – 16 March 1938, Vienna) was a prominent Austrian cultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as a polymath. Before 1916, he was also known by his pen name Egon Friedländer. Early life Friedell's parents had immigrated to Vienna from the eastern parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Bernhard Viel (2013), "Egon Friedell: Der geniale Dilettant". Friedell was the second child of Jewish parents, Moriz Friedmann and Karoline (née Eisenberger), who were running a silk manufactory in Mariahilf. His older brother, , also later became a writer and journalist. His mother left the family for another man when he was one year old, from then on he lived with his father. The divorce was made in 1887. After his father's death in 1889, Friedell lived with his aunt in Frankfurt am Main, where he would attend school, until he was expelled for unruly behavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon VIII Of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (Ernst Egon; 21 March 1588 in Speyer – 24 August 1635 in Constance) was Imperial Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1618–1635) and Bavarian Field-marshal, and an important military leader in the Thirty Years' War. Early life By birth, member of an old House of Fürstenberg, Egon was the son Frederick IV of Fürstenberg (1563–1617) and his wife, Countess Elizabeth of Sulz (1562/63-1601). Career Presumably the third son of the couple, Egon held several church offices. He was Chorbishop of Magdeburg and Strasbourg, treasurer and prebendary, Provost at St. Gereon in Cologne and of Archduke Leopold, Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg, Council and the governor in the autonomous Cathedral district of Rouffach. By imperial letters patent of 9 September 1619, he was made a warlord of the Catholic League (German) during the Thirty Years War. In 1631, Egon of Fürstenberg enforced the Edict of Restitution in Franconia and Württemberg. Tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Guttman
Egon Guttman (January 27, 1927 in Neuruppin, Germany - August 13, 2021) was professor of law and Levitt Memorial Trust Scholar Emeritus at American University, Washington College of Law. His major research fields were corporate and commercial law. He has taught in various universities in England, Canada, Israel, and Sudan. Biography and education Guttman was born in Neuruppin, Germany, in 1927. His parents were Isaac Guttman and Blima Guttman (née Liss). His family moved to Berlin when he was three years old, where he and his sister and brother Herman were taunted for being Jewish. After surviving the Holocaust, Guttman emigrated to the United States in 1958 and was naturalized in 1968. Guttman obtained a bachelor's degree in Laws at University of London in 1950 and continued with a master's degree at the same university (1952). Guttman studied post-graduate in Northwestern University School Law, Chicago (1959). As a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Ronay
Egon Miklos Ronay (24 July 1915 – 12 June 2010) was a Hungarian-born food critic who wrote and published a series of guides to British and Irish restaurants and hotels in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. His guidebooks are credited with raising the quality of British cooking offered in public eating places. He also championed foreign cuisine to British diners. Early life Ronay refused to disclose his date of birth in public records, including his Who's Who entry and CBE Honours Nomination Form. This is speculated to be due to his complex history, including his involvement as an enemy combatant during World War II. Born around 1915 in Bratislava, Austria-Hungary, the only child of former Royal Hungarian Army captain Miklos Ronay, a restaurateur, his grandfather, Nikolaus von (Miklos) Ronay, established the Grand Hotel at Piešťany, now Slovakia. The family moved to Budapest when he was two, and with the onset of World War II, he was commissioned in the Hungarian Army serving w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself ''Der Rasende Reporter'' (The Racing Reporter) for his countless travels to the far corners of the globe and his equally numerous articles produced in a relatively short time (''Hetzjagd durch die Zeit'', 1925), Kisch was noted for his development of literary reportage, his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, and his Communism. Biography Kisch was born into a wealthy German-speaking Sephardi Jewish family in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began his journalistic career as a reporter for ''Bohemia'', a Prague German-language newspaper, in 1906. In 1910, ''Bohemia'' began publishing a weekly column of Kisch's essays. “Prague Forays” ran for more than a year and, along with several books containing reprinted and original material, made Kisch a local celebrity. These feuilletons, which con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Krenz
Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (; born 19 March 1937) is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during the Revolutions of 1989. He succeeded Erich Honecker as the Secretary (title), General Secretary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) but was forced to resign only weeks later when the Berlin Wall fell. Throughout his career, Krenz held a number of prominent positions in the SED. He was Honecker's deputy from 1984 until he succeeded him in 1989 amid protests against the regime. Krenz was unsuccessful in his attempt to retain the Communist regime's grip on power. The SED gave up its monopoly of power some weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Krenz was forced to resign shortly afterward. He was expelled from the Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), SED's successor party on 21 January 1990. In 2000, he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for manslaughter for his role in the Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Kaur
Egon Kaur (born 20 August 1987) is an Estonian rally driver. Career Egon started rallying in 2004, and made his World Rally Championship debut on the 2006 Wales Rally GB in a Renault Clio. His next WRC appearances came in the 2008 season in Sweden and Wales, behind the wheel of a Subaru Impreza WRX STi. He contested Wales Rally GB again at the end of 2009. After winning the Estonian Group N title in 2010, Egon contested the new WRC Academy class in 2011. He won the first three rounds of the season in Portugal, Sardinia and Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, .... Kaur narrowly missed winning the 2011 FIA WRC Academy title to Craig Breen, with equal championship points but fewer fastest stage times. In February 2011, Egon was one of 12 drivers selected for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Bahr
Egon Karl-Heinz Bahr (; 18 March 1922 – 19 August 2015) was a German SPD politician. The former journalist was the creator of the ''Ostpolitik'' promoted by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, for whom he served as Secretary of State in the German Chancellery from 1969 until 1972. Between 1972 and 1990 he was an MP in the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1972 until 1976 was also a Minister of the Federal Government. Bahr was a key figure in multiple negotiation sessions between not only East and West Germany, but also West Germany and the Soviet Union. In addition to his instrumental role in ''Ostpolitik'', Bahr was also an influential voice in negotiating the Treaty of Moscow, the Treaty of Warsaw, the Transit Treaty of 1971, and the Basic Treaty of 1972. Life and career Bahr was born in Treffurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, the son of Hedwig and Karl Bahr, a high school teacher. After completing his secondary education in 1940, Bahr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Coordes
Egon Coordes (born 13 July 1944) is a German former professional football player and coach. Football player career Coordes originally played football for the Leher TS youth side. Coordes later started his professional game career in the late 60s with Regionalliga North TuS Bremerhaven 93 and became well-known beyond the team. Coordes quickly moved to the top-ranked Bundesliga in 1971, playing through the rest of his career as " Defender" at SV Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart. On 26 January 1974, Coordes managed to score the 10,000th Bundesliga goal against Eintracht Frankfurt. Coordes played a final season with Stuttgart before retiring as a player in 1976, aged 31. Issues with the press Coordes often had little respect for journalists and news photographers through the years, which resulted in his often poor coverage in the press. As follows, Coordes never liked giving interviews, and at one point stated that his repeated negative press stories ''"reminds me of the Nazi era". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Jönsson
Bengt Ingvar Egon "Todde" Jönsson (8 October 1921 – 19 March 2000) was a Swedish Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder for Malmö FF and the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team. A full international between 1946 and 1952, he earned 22 Cap (sport), caps for Sweden, scoring nine goals. He was a member of the Sweden team that won the Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal at the Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 Summer Olympics in London, and he also helped win bronze medals at the Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Club career Nicknamed "Todde den Hemlige," Jönsson played 405 matches for Malmö FF, winning four List of Swedish football champions, Allsvenskan titles. He played in 200 Allsvenskan games for Malmö and scored 99 goals. Jönsson featured in every match of Malmö FF’s historic 49-match unbeaten streak, which lasted from 1949 to 1951. Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
