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Konrad (given Name)
Konrad is a German (with variants ''Kunz'' and ''Kunze'') given name that means "Bold Counselor". People named Konrad include: * Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967), German politician, Chancellor of Germany 1949–1963 (CDU) * Konrad Arras (1876–1930), Estonian politician *Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000), German-born American biochemist *Konrad Boehmer (1941–2014), Dutch composer *Konrad Bukowiecki (born 1997), Polish athlete *Konrad Czerniak (born 1989), Polish swimmer *Konrad Dannenberg (1912–2009), German rocket scientist *Konrad de la Fuente (born 2001), American soccer player *Konrad Dobler (born 1957), German long-distance runner * Konrad Duden (1829–1911), German philologist *Konrad Gehringer (1939–2003), German inventor *Konrad Gessner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist *Konrad Gilges (born 1941), German politician *Konrad Grob (1828–1904), Swiss painter * Konrad Heiden (1901–1966), German writer *Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), Czechoslovak politician *Konrad Hirsch ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 November
Events Pre-1600 * 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. *1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros. *1330 – Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush. * 1439 – Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. 1601–1900 *1835 – Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull. * 1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. *1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj. 1901–present *1905 – Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Henlein
Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia. Upon the German occupation in October 1938 he joined the Nazi Party as well as the '' SS'' and was appointed ''Gauleiter'' of the Sudetenland. He was appointed ''Reichsstatthalter'' of the Reichsgau Sudetenland upon its formation on 1 May 1939. Early life Konrad Henlein was born in Maffersdorf (present-day Vratislavice nad Nisou) near Reichenberg (Liberec), in what was then the Bohemian crown land of Austria-Hungary. His father, Konrad Henlein Sr., worked as an accounts clerk. His mother, Hedvika Anna Augusta Dworatschek (Dvořáčková), was the daughter of a family of Czech and German Bohemian origin. At the time when Henlein was growing up, Reichenberg was a center of tension between the long-established German community against newly arrived Czechs from the countryside who had come to work in the town's factories. The ethnic Germans of Reichenberg often ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Nordahl
Konrad Mathias Nordahl (25 September 1897 – 22 May 1975) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. He was the leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1939 to 1965, and an MP from 1958 to 1965. Early life He was born in Laksevåg, then in a part of the municipality of Askøy. At the age of two, he lost his mother and was raised by his uncle and aunt as foster parents; he was then given the surname Nordahl instead of Johannessen. He joined the Norwegian Labour Party in 1912, and a trade union in 1915. He had secretary jobs for the Labour Party and its youth wing, and became a central board member of the Young Communist League of Norway in 1923. In the same year the organization seceded from the Labour Party, and became the young wing of a new Communist Party of Norway. Nordahl was a Communist Party member until 1927, and in 1929 he rejoined the Labour Party. Trade union and politics In 1923 Nordahl had married Constance Hole (1897� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Nielsen
Konrad Hartvig Isak Rosenvinge Nielsen (28 August 1875 – 27 November 1953) was a Norwegian philologist. He spent most of his career as a professor at the Royal Frederick University (University of Oslo) as a lecturer, textbook writer, lexicographer and translator. His specialty was Sami languages, also called Lapp languages in his day. Personal life and education He was born in Vik i Helgeland as a son of politician Sivert Andreas Nielsen (1823–1904) and his wife Jonette Cornelie Falch Heide (1833–1925). In December 1924 he married Gudrun Augusta Agnes Müller (1889–1954). He was the father of diplomat Sivert Andreas Nielsen. Nielsen's family moved from Vik to Bodø when Nielsen was eight years old. He finished his secondary education in 1892, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.theol. degree in 1896. However, he changed his specialty to Fennic languages. In 1897 and 1898 he took exams in Kven and Sami languages, and from 1898 to 1899 he studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen (8 June 1909 – 4 February 1982) was an SS judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps. He rose to the rank of SS-''Sturmbannführer'' (major). After the war, Morgen served as witness at several anti-Nazi trials and continued his legal career in Frankfurt. Morgen was known as a ''Blutrichter, or 'blood judge','' as a result of being one of the members of the judiciary authorised to issue the death penalty. A mistranslation of this may also be the reason that he earned the nickname 'The Bloodhound Judge', said to be for his determination and doggedness in achieving justice.holocaustresearchproject.org: "Konrad Morgen, 'The Bloodhound Judge', Investigating corruption within the SS/ref> Early life and war service Born to a railwayman in Frankfurt, Morgen graduated from the University of Frankfurt and The Hague Academy of International Law, before becoming a judge in Stettin. Morgen joined the Nazi Party on 1 April 1933, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Mägi
Konrad Vilhelm Mägi (1 November 1878 – 15 August 1925) was an Estonian painter, primarily known for his landscape work. He was one of the most colour-sensitive Estonian painters of the first decades of the 20th century, and Mägi's works on motifs of the island of Saaremaa are the first modern Estonian nature paintings. Life and works Mägi received his elementary art education from the drawing courses of the German Artisans' Society of Tartu (1899–1902.) At the same time, he was keenly engaged in theater, violin, and various sports. Mägi continued his art education as an unattached student in Saint Petersburg (1903–1905), studying under Amandus Adamson. In the autumn of 1907, he went to Paris. There Mägi studied at a free academy. From 1908 to 1910, he lived in Norway. In 1912, Mägi returned to Tartu, where he worked as an art teacher. In Åland, he created delicate plant vignettes in the style of Art Nouveau: ''Kahekesi'' (''Two together''; 1908; China ink drawing). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early) bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive bond. In 1936 he met Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-disciplin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Laimer
Konrad Laimer (born 27 May 1997) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Austria national team. Club career Laimer is a youth exponent from Red Bull Salzburg. He made his Erste Liga debut with the reserve team and breeder club Liefering in 2 May 2014, against SV Horn. He made his first team debut at 28 September 2014 against Rapid Wien. He replaced Alan in added time. On 30 June 2017, Laimer moved to Germany and joined RB Leipzig on a four-year deal. Laimer's deal was due to run out in 2021, but he later signed a contract extension until 2023. International career Laimer got his first call up to the senior Austria side for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Georgia in September 2017. He made his debut on 7 June 2019 in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovenia, as a starter. Career statistics Club International :''Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Kujau
Konrad Paul Kujau (27 June 1938 – 12 September 2000) was a German illustrator and forger. He became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million (€2,421,020 in 2020 terms, adjusted for inflation) from a journalist who in turn sold it for DM 9.3 million to the magazine ''Stern,'' resulting in a net profit of DM 6.8 million (€6,585,174 in 2020 terms, adjusted for inflation) for the journalist. The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau. Biography Early life "Konny" Kujau was born in Löbau, Nazi Germany, one of five children of Richard Kujau, a cobbler, and his wife, both of whom had joined the Nazi Party in 1933. Kujau's early life was of unremitting poverty and his mother was obliged to send her children into orphanages for periods of time. The boy grew up believing in the Nazi ideals and idolising Adolf Hitler; the defeat by the Allies in 1945, and Hitler's suicide, did not temper his enth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Knutsen
Konrad Gustav Knudsen (19 August 1890 - 16 June 1959) was a Norwegian painter, journalist, and parliamentarian. Knudsen is perhaps best known for inviting Leon Trotsky to live at his house when the Norwegian government granted Trotsky political asylum in June 1935. History Konrad Knudsen was born in Drammen, and was a painter like his father. He finished accounting training in 1904 and worked as a painter in Drammen until 1908 when he travelled to the United States. In the US he worked as a painter, lumberjack and a construction worker, and then became editor of the socialist publication ''Social-Demokraten''. In 1920, Knudsen was one of the leading figures in the Scandinavian Socialist Federation that sided with the Communist International.Lovoll, Odd Sverre. Norwegian Newspapers in America: Connecting Norway and the New Land'. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010. p. 266 Knudsen returned to Drammen in 1920 and worked as a painter foreman until 1923, before he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Koch
Wilhelm Carl Johann Conrad Koch, commonly known as Konrad Koch (13 February 1846 – 13 April 1911) was a German teacher and Association football, football pioneer. Early life and career Koch was born on 13 February 1846 in Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick. After finishing secondary school in Braunschweig, he studied theology and philology at the universities of University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, and Leipzig University, Leipzig. He returned to Braunschweig in 1868 to become a teacher for Ancient Greek, Latin, history, and geography at the prestigious :de:Martino-Katharineum Braunschweig, Martino-Katharineum secondary school. Football Koch was a pioneer in introducing ball games as part of physical education in German schools. He was influenced by the ideas of Thomas Arnold respectively Thomas Hughes' novel ''Tom Brown's School Days''. In 1874 Koch and his colleague August Hermann organized what is believed to be the first-ever football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
