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Heuer
Heuer is a surname that comes from the German word "Heu" meaning "hay." The name is occupational in origin, especially so, when it serves as an element in a compound. Heumaier would refer to the officer who oversaw the delivery of the hay harvest. Heuwemenger is the equivalent of "Heuhändler" meaning hay merchant. The surname Heuer was first found in what are now Germany and Switzerland, where the earliest mentions of the name include Cunrat der Hewer in Württemberg in 1329, Heu in Konstanz, Hauwemenger in Frankfurt in 1387, and Heurechen in Zürich in 1400. The name could also be found in Bohemia and Moravia in the 14th century, especially within compound names, such as Heuleiter, Heureufel, Heubüschl, Heuteuer, and Heuradem. People with the surname Notable people with the surname include: * Beata Heuer-Christen (born 1935), Swiss soprano * Codi Heuer (born 1996), American baseball player * Edouard Heuer (1840–1892), Swiss founder of watch company Heuer * Daniel Heuer Fernan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TAG Heuer
TAG Heuer S.A., founded Heuer AG ( ) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. Founded in 1860 by Edouard Heuer in St-Imier, Switzerland, it was acquired by Techniques d'Avant Garde (TAG) in 1985, which purchased a majority stake in the company, forming ''TAG Heuer''. In 1999, French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH bought nearly 100 percent of the Swiss company. The name ''TAG Heuer'' combines the initials of "Techniques d'Avant Garde" and the founder's surname. Although best known for its chronographs, it has also manufactured stopwatches. History TAG Heuer is based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and is led by CEO Frédéric Arnault. Jack Heuer, great-grandson of the founder, is the honorary chairman. TAG Heuer maintains a watchmaking workshop in Cornol, Switzerland, and a watchmaking factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds. TAG Heuer's slogan is "Swiss Avant-Garde Since 1860". 1860 through 1880s In 1860 Edouard Heuer founded Uhrenmanufaktur Heuer AG (English: Heuer Watchmaking Inc.) in St- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richards Heuer
Richards "Dick" J. Heuer, Jr. (July 15, 1927 – August 21, 2018) was a CIA veteran of 45 years and most known for his work on analysis of competing hypotheses and his book, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis'' This is the Introduction to Heuer's book ''Psychology of Intelligence Analysis''. The former provides a methodology for overcoming intelligence biases while the latter outlines how mental models and natural biases impede clear thinking and analysis. Throughout his career, he worked in collection operations, counterintelligence, intelligence analysis and personnel security. In 2010 he co-authored a book with Randolph (Randy) H. Pherson titled ''Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis''. Background Richards Heuer graduated in 1950 from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. One year later, while a graduate student at the University of California in Berkeley, future CIA Director Richard Helms recruited Heuer to work at the Central Intelligence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Heuer Fernandes
Daniel Heuer Fernandes (born 13 November 1992) is a professional footballer who plays a goalkeeper for 2. Bundesliga club Hamburger SV. Born in Germany, he has represented Portugal at youth level. Early life Daniel Heuer Fernandes was born in Bochum to a Portuguese father and a German mother. He grew up in the Bochum-quarter of Langendreer and has both German and Portuguese nationality. Club career Early years Heuer Fernandes' youth career included stints at VfL Bochum and Borussia Dortmund. He played for VfL Bochum II for two seasons. During the 2011–12 season, he made 14 appearances and during the 2012–13 season, he made 34 appearances. From 3. Liga to Bundesliga He played for VfL Osnabrück during the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. During the 2013–14 season, he made 36 appearances. During the 2014–15 season, he made 26 appearances. In July 2015, Heuer Fernandes left 3. Liga side VfL Osnabrück to join freshly relegated and then 2. Bundesliga club SC Pader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codi Heuer
Codi Dalton Heuer (born July 3, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs. Heuer played college baseball at Wichita State University. Amateur career Heuer was born and raised in Missoula, Montana, before moving to Fort Collins, Colorado before he began high school. Following the move, he attended Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Collins. In 2015, his senior year, he threw a complete game shutout in which he struck out 17 batters, a school record. He went undrafted in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft, and enrolled at Wichita State University where he played college baseball for the Shockers. In 2016, his freshman season at Wichita State, he appeared in 21 games (making two starts) in which he went 1–1 with a 9.12 ERA in innings, and as a sophomore in 2017, he pitched to a 2–2 record and 4.42 ERA in innings. In 2018, his junior year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Rolf-Dieter Heuer (; born 24 May 1948) is a German particle physicist. From 2009 to 2015 he was Director General of CERN and from 5 April 2016 to 9 April 2018 President of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft). Since 2015 he has been Chair of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, and since May 2017 he has been President of the SESAME Council. Biography Heuer studied physics at the University of Stuttgart. He then obtained his PhD 1977 at the University of Heidelberg under Joachim Heintze for his study of neutral decay modes of the Ψ(3686). His post-doc studies include the JADE experiment at the electron-positron storage ring PETRA at DESY, and from 1984, at the OPAL experiment at CERN, where he also became spokesperson of the OPAL collaboration for many years. Having been offered a full professorship for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg, Heuer returned to DESY in 1998. In 2004, he was appointed DESY's Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Heuer
Heinz Heuer (2 August 1918 – 6 January 2002) was a German military police () officer who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for single-handedly destroying 13 Soviet tanks during the Battle of Berlin in the closing days of World War II. He was the only member of the ''Feldgendarmerie'' to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest award in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. Biography Heuer was born in Berlin on 2 August 1918. His Army career began at the age of 18, serving in ''Flak'' regiments in Döberitz and Berlin before undergoing police training in 1938, and being assigned to ''Ordnungspolizei'' Headquarters. This was followed by special duties assignments to the Foreign Office and Wehrmacht Headquarters (, OKW) military intelligence () foreign department. During the war, Heuer served on a number of fronts and also with the Brandenburgers. In 1945, Heuer was an '' Oberfeldwebel der Gendarmerie'' in cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Heuer
Otto Heuer (6 February 1854 – 24 January 1931) was a German literary historian. He served as the director of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift literary association from 1888 until his retirement in 1925. Biography Heuer was born on 6 February 1854 to Friedrich Wilhelm and Emilia Heuer. He attended the gymnasium in Hanover before leaving to study philology and history at Leipzig University, after which he moved to Bohemia. He later moved to Berlin in 1882 before moving to Frankfurt in 1886. On 21 January 1887, Heuer was elected secretary of the Academic Department for History in the Freies Deutsches Hochstift. In the same year Heuer received his PhD in History from Humboldt University of Berlin. On 1 April 1888, he became the librarian at the Hochstift; under Heuer this role morphed into that of director. Heuer expanded the Hochstift's collection and curated several exhibitions about Goethe (such as one in 1892 about ''The Sorrows of Young Werther''). He also led the constructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Heuer
Christian Ludwig Wilhelm Heuer (6 November 1813 – 15 April 1890) was a German lithographer. Life Heuer was born during the occupation of Hamburg by the army of the French Revolution in Hamburg's Görttwiete near the Hopfenmarkt. He was the son of tailor's Johann Friedrich Heuer and Christina Magdalena, ''née'' Lehmann from Uelzen. His birth was registered in the French vital records of Hambourg under number 2738. When he was just one year old, his parents moved to a house in the Stavenpforte and later to the Altenwallstraße. The house there fell victim to the Great fire of Hamburg in 1842. Heuer began his apprenticeship as a lithographer around 1828/1829 in the printing house of the Suhr brothers. After completing his apprenticeship, he initially worked there and only went to Vienna in the second half of the 1830s to perfect his skills. Here he also met his future wife Maria Grisenberger (* 1816), whom he married on 11 April 1837 in the parish of St. Leopold. She was a daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Heuer (proofreader)
Walter Heuer (25 October 1908 in Aegerten, canton of Bern, 7 September 1977 in Küsnacht, canton of Zurich) was Chefkorrektor (head proofreader) at the ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' and author of the book ''Richtiges Deutsch''. He was a central figure in the area of German orthography, especially in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Life Walter Heuer was born on 25 October 1908 in Aegerten, a small town in the Seeland region in the Swiss canton of Bern. After an apprenticeship as typesetter in the city of Biel from 1924 to 1928, he worked at the newspaper ''Luzerner Tagblatt'' (now ''Neue Luzerner Zeitung''). Heuer later was proofreaderIn Switzerland: ''Korrektor''. This profession is roughly a combination of proofreading and copy editing with focus on spelling, grammar and punctuation. at the printing house ''Druckerei Friedrich Reinhardt'' in Basel, a common career step for typesetters. In 1939, he became head proofreader at the book printer ''Buchdruckerei Büchler & Co AG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valter Heuer
Valter Heuer (14 July 1928, Elva, Estonia – 2 March 2006, Jämejala, Estonia) was an Estonian writer and chess player, who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1960. Chess career In 1960 Valter Heuer became a Soviet Master after won classification match against German Fridshtein — 7½ : 1½ (+6 −0 =3). He won the Estonian Chess Championship in 1976, finished second in 1962 and finished third in 1961. In 1981 Heuer won the Estonian Rapid Chess Championship. Heuer has played for Estonia five times in the Soviet Team Chess Championships (1953, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1975), and once played for the Estonian team "Kalev" in the Soviet Team Chess Cup (1966). Writer Valter Heuer graduated from University of Tartu with a degree in Estonian philology. Many years he worked as sports journalist in various magazines. He was a co-author of the Estonian book about 1964 Summer Olympics - "Tokyo 1964". In 1977 Heuer published his biographical book ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jannis Heuer
Jannis Heuer (born 29 July 1999) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defender for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the . Career Heuer was born in Burgwedel. After playing youth football for Hannover 96, he switched to VfL Wolfsburg in 2014. He made his senior debut for VfL Wolfsburg II on 9 December 2018 in a 6–1 win over Eintracht Norderstedt. In total, he scored four goals in 24 appearances for Wolfsburg II. He joined SC Paderborn on a two-year contract in July 2021. He made his debut for SC Paderborn on 24 July 2021 when he was named in the starting eleven for a 0–0 2. Bundesliga draw with 1. FC Heidenheim. In March 2023, he extended his contract with the club. On 10 June 2024, Heuer joined fellow 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern (), K'lautern or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
