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Langen (surname)
Langen, van Langen or von Langen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Birgit Collin-Langen (born 1956), German politician * Carl Freiherr von Langen (1887–1934), German equestrian who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics * Christoph Langen (born 1962), German bobsledder * Dexter Langen (born 1980), German footballer * Dirk Reinhard Adelbert van Langen (1898–1983), a member of the Chief of Staff of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army * Ellen van Langen (born 1966), Dutch athlete * Eugen Langen (1833–1895), German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertal monorail * Ivar Langen (born 1942), rector at the University of Stavanger in Norway * Joseph Langen Joseph Langen (3 June 1837 – 13 July 1901) was a German theologian and priest, who was instrumental for the German Old Catholic movement. Langen was born at Cologne, studied at Bonn, and was ordained priest for the Roman Catholic Churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgit Collin-Langen
Birgit Collin-Langen (born 4 September 1956) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2012 until 2019. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. Career Between 1993 and 1996, Collin-Langen headed the department for legal affairs and human resources at the Investment and Economic Development Bank of Rhineland-Palatinate (ISB). Collin-Langen served as the mayor of Bingen am Rhein from 1996 to 2012. In this capacity, she also served as vice-president of the Congress of the Council of Europe. Ahead of the 2011 state elections, she was part of Julia Klöckner's campaign team and served as shadow minister of justice and internal affairs. In March 2012, Collin-Langen took her seat in the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate in place of Kurt Lechner, who had resigned his seat due to age. Between 2012 and 2014, she served on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Freiherr Von Langen
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Langen (25 July 1887 – 2 August 1934) was a German landowner, cavalry officer, and equestrian who was a gold medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Early life Langen was born in Klein Belitz in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of an aristocratic estate owner and horse breeder. He became a landowner in Parow. He entered the 1st Guards Uhlans of the Imperial German Army and fought in the First World War on the eastern front. He attained the rank of ''Rittmeister'' but fell seriously ill in 1914, temporarily resulting in significant paralysis of both legs. He gradually recovered and resumed riding by 1917. Equestrian career Langen began a sporting career in horsemanship in 1920. In 1921, he won 26 show jumping competitions, came in second 20 times, and third 44 times. In 1922, Langen competed abroad for the first time in Malmö, Sweden but was unsuccessful. The following year, he won five times in Malmö. In 1924, he competed in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Langen
Christoph Langen (born 27 March 1962, in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German bobsledder who competed for the West Germany and Germany national team from 1985 to 2005 (as a pilot from 1991). In his four Winter Olympics, he won four medals; two golds (Two-man: 2002, Four-man: 1998) and two bronzes (Two-man: 1992, 1998). Langen was slowed by injuries to his Achilles tendon, which required two surgeries. His injuries prevented competing in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He was a bobsleigh television commentator in Germany until promoted to head coach of the Germany national team in June 2010. Langen also won twelve medals at the FIBT World Championships with eight golds (Two-man: 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001; Four-man: 1991 (as a brakeman), 1996, 2001) and four silvers (Two-man: 1999, 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dexter Langen
Dexter Langen (born 6 December 1980 in Friedberg, Hesse) is a German former football defender. As of December 2014, he is training to be a nursery teacher. Career On 15 December 2008, he was released with teammate Đorđije Ćetković Đorđije Ćetković (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic: Ђорђије Ћетковић; born 3 January 1983) is a Montenegrin retired Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He played three times for the Montenegro nation ... from Hansa Rostock and was demoted to reserve team, on 9 March 2009 he was reprieved and trained with the first team. References External links Dexter Langenat kicker.de * 1980 births Living people People from Friedberg, Hesse Footballers from Darmstadt (region) German men's footballers Kickers Offenbach players Dynamo Dresden players FC Hansa Rostock players Borussia Mönchengladbach players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Men's association football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Reinhard Adelbert Van Langen
Major general Dirk Reinhard Adelbert "Rein" van Langen (17 May 1898 – 20 January 1983) was a member of the chief of staff of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL), the territorial commander of East Java, and commander of the T-Brigade of the Royal Netherlands Army from 1946 to 1949, during the Indonesian National Revolution. Early career After attending the Royal Military Academy in Breda, the Netherlands, Van Langen was promoted from cadet-ensign to cadet-sergeant in October 1918. In July 1919 he was promoted to second lieutenant and departed on 13 September for the Dutch East Indies. Upon arrival, he was promoted to first lieutenant; he was placed in the sixteenth battalion in Meester Cornelis. He married on 17 June 1924 to Annie Bartelds (daughter of KNIL colonel Bartelds), with whom he had engaged in 1922. He was transferred to the garrison battalion of Palembang and Jambi in April 1927 and transferred to the first depot battalion in Bandung. On 8 March 1928, Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Langen
Carl Eugen Langen (9 October 1833 in Cologne – 2 October 1895 in Elsdorf) was a German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertal Suspension Railway. In 1857 he worked in his father's sugar factory, JJ Langen & Söhne, and after extensive technical training at the Polytechnic institute in Karlsruhe, patented a method for producing sugar cubes. In 1870 he co-founded Pfeifer & Langen, still in operation today. He sold this method in 1872 to Sir Henry Tate of England, founder of the Tate Gallery in London. Otto and Langen In 1864, Langen met Nicolaus August Otto who was working to improve the gas engine invented by Belgian Etienne Lenoir. The technically–trained Langen recognized the potential of Otto's development, and one month after the meeting, founded the first engine factory in the world, NA Otto & Cie. At the 1867 Paris World Exhibition, their improved engine received the Grand Prize. Deutz After this f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Langen
Ivar Langen (born December 21, 1942) was the rector at the University of Stavanger from 2003 to 2007. He was a central figure in the campaign to gain university status for Stavanger University College, which was awarded in 2005. Langen has been a professor of Mechanical Engineering since 1994. In 1997, he founded the Centre for Maintenance and Asset Management, and from 2000 to 2003, he was the vice dean of the School of Science and Technology at Stavanger University College. Langen also serves on the board of directors of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers and was president of the organisation from 2002 to 2003. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (, NTVA) is a learned society based in Trondheim, Norway. Founded in 1955, the academy has about 500 members. It is a member of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technologica .... References 1942 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Langen
Joseph Langen (3 June 1837 – 13 July 1901) was a German theologian and priest, who was instrumental for the German Old Catholic movement. Langen was born at Cologne, studied at Bonn, and was ordained priest for the Roman Catholic Church in 1859. He was nominated professor extraordinary at the University of Bonn in 1864, and a professor in ordinary of the exegesis of the New Testament in 1867—an office which he held until his death. He was one of the band of professors who in 1870 supported Döllinger in his resistance to the Vatican decrees, and was excommunicated along with Döllinger, Johann Nepomuk Huber, Johann Friedrich, Franz Heinrich Reusch, Joseph Hubert Reinkens and others, for refusing to accept them. In 1878, in consequence of the permission given to priests to marry, Langen ceased to identify himself with the Old Catholic movement, but was not reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church. His first work was an inquiry into the authorship of the ''Commentary on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen (January 5, 1913 – July 6, 1976) was an American politician from the state of Minnesota. He served six terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1971. Early life and career Odin Langen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His family moved to Kennedy, Minnesota around 1914. He attended the public schools and Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis from 1933 to 1934. He engaged in farming in Kittson County near Kennedy, Minnesota and was associated with Production Marketing Administration in Kittson County, Minnesota from 1935 to 1950. Political career Langen was a member of the Kennedy (Minnesota) School Board and served as its president from 1948 to 1950. Langen also served on the South Red River Town Board from 1947 to 1950. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives where he served from 1951 to 1959. He became the Republican leader of the state house in 1957. In 1958, he ran for the United States House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Langen
Philipp Langen (born 2 July 1986 in Lahnstein, West Germany) is a German former footballer. Career The midfielder joined the youth team of TuS Koblenz in the age of 14, playing his first match for the professional team in the German Oberliga Südwest (4th division) aged only 17. After the ascent to Regionalliga in 2004 he immediately became a starter in his team, playing 63 matches and scoring five goals in two seasons, finally celebrating the club's promotion to 2nd Bundesliga for the 2006–07 season. He joined Greuther Fürth in 2008 and turned back for one season on loan to TuS Koblenz on 19 June 2009. Honours * Rheinlandpokal 2005 and 2006 with TuS Koblenz TuS Koblenz is a Football in Germany, German association football club, located in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Fussball Club Deutschland Neuendorf, which was formed in 1911, is viewed as the foundation of the modern club. History Nazi era ( ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Langen, Philipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Von Langen
Rudolph von Langen (1438 or 1439 – December 1519) was a German Catholic divine, who helped introduce Humanistic ideas to the town of Munster, Westphalia. He was born in the village of Everswinkel, near Munster, to an aristocratic family. There is dispute as to his education. According to Hermann Hamelmann, he received his schooling at Deventer, in the school of Thomas a Kempis, together with Rodolphus Agricola, Alexander Hegius, Anton Liber of Soest, Count Maurice von Spielenberg, and Ludwig Dringenberg. However, the Catholic Encyclopedia disputes this. In 1456 he entered the University of Erfurt, and received the degree of B.A. in 1459, and M.A. in 1460. But before this he was made Canon of the cathedral of Munster, and provost of the old cathedral in 1462. He went to Rome in 1466 in connection with the election of a bishop. At Munster he was the centre of literary life, as well as of humanistic efforts. He was surrounded by a group of men of similar tastes. He possessed a good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
