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Krüger
Krüger, Krueger, Kreuger‘’’’ or Kruger (without the umlaut ü) are German surnames originating from '' Krüger'', meaning tavern-keeper in Low German and potter in Central German and Upper German, both associated with the Germanic word wikt:Krug, "jug". Notable people with the surname include: People * Adalbert Krueger (1832–1896), German astronomer * Alan Krueger (1960–2019), American economist * Alex Kruger (born 1963), English Olympic decathlete * Alma Kruger (1871–1960), American stage and film actress * Anne Osborn Krueger (born 1934), American economist * Anton Robert Krueger (born 1971), South African writer * Ashlyn Krueger (born 2004), American tennis player * Barbara Kruger (born 1945), American conceptual artist * Bernhard Krüger (1904–1989), German SS officer and counterfeiter * Bob Krueger (1935–2022), American politician * Bradley Kruger (born 1988), Dutch cricketer * Carl Kruger (born 1949), American politician * Clifford Krueger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German paramilitary commander in charge of, and personally involved in progressive annihilation of the Polish nation, its culture, its heritage and its wealth, and never sentenced for his war crimes. Long before the war he was a high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government, giving him command of all police and security forces in German-occupied Poland. In this capacity, he organized and supervised numerous crimes against humanity and had major responsibility for the German genocide of the Polish nation: the extermination of six million Poles (three million of them Polish Jews) and massive destruction, degradation and impoverishment of the Polish state. He took his own life in May 1945. Career Krüger was born in 1894 into a military family in Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, then part of the German Empire (today, Strasbourg, France) He and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Krüger
Facundo Nicolás Krüger (born 5 June 2000) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a striker for Barracas Central, on loan from Temperley. Club career Born in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Krüger was with Arsenal de Sarandí, and Tristán Suárez before joining Cañuelas in February 2018. In November of the same year, he made his debut with the first team against Deportivo Armenio under Roberto Sosa. He scored the goal with which Cañuelas won the 2019 Apertura of the Primera C. He also was a member of the squad that got promotion to the Primera B Metropolitana in the 2020 Transición of the Primera C. In March 2021, he was loaned out to Chilean club Deportes Valdivia. In the 2023 season, he was loaned out to Temperley with an option to buy. After his loan ended, he was permanently transferred to Temperley on a deal for three years. On 29 June 2024, he joined Barracas Central Club Atlético Barracas Central is an Argentine professional association football, foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Krüger
Franz Krüger (10 September 1797, in Großbadegast, Köthen, Anhalt – 21 January 1857, in Berlin), known as Pferde-Krüger ("Horse-Krüger"), was a German (Prussian) painter and lithographer. He was best known for his romantic and lively portraits and pictures of horses, which made him the most in demand military and portrait painter in Berlin. His paintings of military parades and hundreds of portraits led to him painting many of the "well to do" of the city. Life Krüger was the son of a nobleman, and his friendship with the ornithologist Johann Friedrich Naumann from the neighbouring town of Ziebigk led him into animal painting. During his school days in Dessau, he came into contact with the landscape painter . Krüger studied in 1812–13 at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, and then continued to hone his skills independently by drawing from life, particularly in the Prussian royal stables. In 1818, his military and hunting paintings were exhibited at the acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Krüger
__NOTOC__ Bernhard Krüger (; 26 November 1904 – 3 January 1989) was a member of the NSDAP, SS ''Sturmbannführer'' (Major) during World War II, and leader of the Department VI F 4a, part of the SD-foreign branch in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). This office of the Nazi Party Security Service (SD) was responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents. Within the setting of Operation Bernhard, the SD forged pound notes in great numbers, funding Nazi Germany with £600 million in high-quality counterfeit currency (worth approx. $6 billion 2009). This counterfeiting operation was named after Krüger, who led the operation from a segregated factory built at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, manned by 142 Jewish inmates. The pound counterfeiting operation ended in 1944. However Krüger succeeded in establishing a new operation to forge American dollar notes. In May 1945 his team of prisoners were transferred to Ebensee concentration camp in Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Kruger
Fred Kruger (born Johan Friedrich Carl Kruger; 18 April 1831 – 15 February 1888) was a German-born photographer noted for his early photography of landscape and indigenous peoples in Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia. Migration to Australia from Germany Kruger was born of a working-class family on 18 April 1831, at 16 Steingassestrasse, Berlin, Germany, and was baptised Johān Friedrich Carl Krüger. He was an upholsterer and, in 1858, married Auguste Wilhelmine Elisabeth Bauman at Friedrichswerder Church, Friedrichwerder Church in Berlin. It is thought that his wife and son migrated to Victoria, Australia on 23 April 1863, some time after his own arrival. He initially joined a partnership in a furniture business that his brother Bernard had established at Rutherglen, Australia, Rutherglen in 1854. Kruger subsequently became the sole owner of the business, but then sold it before 1866, when he set up as cabinetmaker in Taradale, Victoria, Taradale. Photographic car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
