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Puttkamer
The House of Puttkamer (also abbreviated to ''v. Puttkamer'') belongs to a widely extended German noble family whose earliest ancestor is first recorded between 1257 and 1260 in Schlawe (Sławno), Farther Pomerania. While some of its branches have the title of ''Graf'' (count), others are entitled to the lesser ''Freiherr'' ( baron). According to a widespread family tradition, many firstborn Puttkamer sons receive the first name of "Jesco". Persons * Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer (1715–1759), Prussian general killed at Battle of Kunersdorf * Gertrud von Puttkamer (1881–1944), German erotic writer * Jesco Carl Eugen von Puttkamer (1919–1987), Ambassador of the FRG to Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Lisbon & Belgrade. He was Ambassador to Israel at the time of the 1972 killings at the Munich summer Olympics. * Jesco von Puttkamer (1933–2012), engineer and NASA manager * Jesko von Puttkamer (1855–1917), German military chief and governor of German Cameroon from 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Von Puttkamer
Baron Peter Von Puttkamer (born April 8, 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker known for his unique approach to adventure documentary series for network television, and for his work with Indigenous communities in his country and around the world. He has won major international awards for his work as a writer, director and producer, and was recently nominated for the 2015 Environmental Media Awards for his Nat Geo series, Biggest & Baddest, which he directed and co-produced with his wife and business partner, Sheera Von Puttkamer. For over thirty years, the couple has run Gryphon Productions and has a catalog that includes hundreds of finished films and videos, many that have appeared on television and cable networks globally and continue to be used in classrooms and outreach centers as educational and advocacy videos. Peter is an occasional media personality who has appeared on many high-profile news programs and talk shows, including popular appearances on Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesco Von Puttkamer (MdH)
Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer () was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. He was an advocate of human space exploration, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While at NASA, he served as the program manager in charge of long-range planning of deep space crewed activities (flights beyond Earth orbit). He was regarded as an expert on the Russian space program. Puttkamer assisted with daily on-orbit operations at NASA from 2009 until 2012. His was given the nickname ''Jessie'' by DeForest Kelley, whom Puttkammer called ''Dee''. He died of a sudden flu-like illness on 27 December 2012. Early life He was born, in Leipzig, to the German noble Puttkamer family with the titular rank of baron (). According to family tradition, each firstborn Puttkamer son is given the forename Jesco. Puttkamer finished high school in Konstanz, and studied mechanical engineering at the ''Technische Hochschu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesco Von Puttkamer (NASA)
Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer () was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. He was an advocate of human space exploration, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While at NASA, he served as the program manager in charge of long-range planning of deep space crewed activities (flights beyond Earth orbit). He was regarded as an expert on the Russian space program. Puttkamer assisted with daily on-orbit operations at NASA from 2009 until 2012. His was given the nickname ''Jessie'' by DeForest Kelley, whom Puttkammer called ''Dee''. He died of a sudden flu-like illness on 27 December 2012. Early life He was born, in Leipzig, to the German noble Puttkamer family with the titular rank of baron (). According to family tradition, each firstborn Puttkamer son is given the forename Jesco. Puttkamer finished high school in Konstanz, and studied mechanical engineering at the ''Technische Hochsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesco Von Puttkamer
Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer () was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. He was an advocate of human space exploration, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While at NASA, he served as the program manager in charge of long-range planning of deep space crewed activities (flights beyond Earth orbit). He was regarded as an expert on the Russian space program. Puttkamer assisted with daily on-orbit operations at NASA from 2009 until 2012. His was given the nickname ''Jessie'' by DeForest Kelley, whom Puttkammer called ''Dee''. He died of a sudden flu-like illness on 27 December 2012. Early life He was born, in Leipzig, to the German noble Puttkamer family with the titular rank of baron (). According to family tradition, each firstborn Puttkamer son is given the forename Jesco. Puttkamer finished high school in Konstanz, and studied mechanical engineering at the ''Technische Hochsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesco Von Puttkamer (Publizist)
Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer () was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. He was an advocate of human space exploration, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While at NASA, he served as the program manager in charge of long-range planning of deep space crewed activities (flights beyond Earth orbit). He was regarded as an expert on the Russian space program. Puttkamer assisted with daily on-orbit operations at NASA from 2009 until 2012. His was given the nickname ''Jessie'' by DeForest Kelley, whom Puttkammer called ''Dee''. He died of a sudden flu-like illness on 27 December 2012. Early life He was born, in Leipzig, to the German noble Puttkamer family with the titular rank of baron (). According to family tradition, each firstborn Puttkamer son is given the forename Jesco. Puttkamer finished high school in Konstanz, and studied mechanical engineering at the ''Technische Hochsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Jesko Von Puttkamer
Karl-Jesko Otto Robert von Puttkamer (24 March 1900 – 4 March 1981) was a German admiral who was naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler during World War II. Military service Puttkamer was born in Frankfurt (Oder) and was a member of the Puttkamer family, related to Otto von Bismarck's wife. He joined the Imperial German Navy as an officer cadet in 1917 and served on a heavy cruiser in World War I. Puttkamer enlisted during World War I on 2 July 1917 as a volunteer in the Imperial Navy's ' ''Seeoffizierslaufbahn'' regiment. In December 1917 Puttkamer served on the battleship ''Kaiserin''. In the final months of the war, Puttkamer graduated at the Naval Academy Mürwik in a navigation course. He then took leave and joined the ''Freikorps''. In September 1920 Puttkamer returned to the Naval Academy. He was commissioned as an officer in 1923. In September 1926, Puttkamer became commander of the torpedo boat under Karl Dönitz, a position he held until October 1930, where he was promo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Von Puttkamer
Robert Viktor von Puttkamer (5 May 182815 March 1900) was a Prussian statesman, most prominent in his roles as Prussian minister of public education and worship in 1879 and as interior minister in 1881, under his brother-in-law Otto von Bismarck. He also introduced reforms in German orthography. Early career Puttkamer was born at Frankfurt (Oder) in the Province of Brandenburg. His father, Heinrich von Puttkamer, ''Oberpräsident'' of the Province of Posen, belonged to the widely extended noble Puttkamer family, of which Bismarck's wife Johanna von Puttkamer and Puttkamer's own wife were also members. Robert von Puttkamer, after a short course of law, began his official career in 1850 as '' Auskultator'' in the courts at Danzig, but in 1852 he entered the civil service, and after his promotion to the rank of ''Assessor'' in 1854 he was given a post in the railway department of the ministry for trade and industry. In 1859 he became a member of the presidial council (german: O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Ludwig Von Puttkamer
Georg Ludwig of Puttkamer (11 April 1715 in Versin – 12 August 1759 at Kunersdorf) was a Prussian major general and squire of Pawonków and Pietrowice in Upper Silesia; he came from the Pomeranian noble family of Puttkamer. Family Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer was the third son of the landowner of Versin and Viartlum, Andreas Joachim von Puttkamer (12 September 1665 in Versin — 14 June 1721 in Klein Volz) and Margarethe Dorothee von Below (10 October 1684 in Klein Machmin – 11 or 12 August 1755 in Versin). Georg Ludwig had seven sisters and three brothers, of whom one brother and four sisters died very young. He married Luise von Weissenfels and had two daughters and two sons, one of whom died very young.Bernhard von PotenPuttkamer, George Ludwig von ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'', herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 26 (1888), S. 777–779, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource, (Version vom 11 February 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Von Puttkamer
Baroness Gertrud von Puttkamer (''Gertrud Freifrau von Puttkamer'' in German; born Gertrud Günther, 4 April 1881 – 27 or 30 September 1944), also known by her pen name Marie-Madeleine, was a German writer of lesbian-themed erotic literature and homoerotic poetry. Her first book, ''Auf Kypros'', sold over one million copies during her lifetime. Life Gertrud Günther was born on 4 April 1881 in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia in the Kingdom of Prussia to Jewish parents. Her father was Karl Günther, a merchant, and her mother was Emmy Siemssen, a housewife. She grew up within Eydtkuhnen's middle class Jewish community. In 1900, at the age of nineteen, she married Baron Heinrich Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer, a member of the Pomeranian nobility who was 35 years her senior. Upon her marriage, Baroness von Puttkamer moved into a villa with her husband in Grunewald, Berlin and frequently traveled to Vienna, Paris, Nice, and Monte Carlo where she socialized with Hollywood actors, Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Von Puttkamer
Johanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore, Princess of Bismarck, Duchess of Lauenburg (née von Puttkamer; 11 April 1824 – 27 November 1894) was a Prussian noblewoman and the wife of the 1st Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck. Early life She was born at Viartlum manor near Rummelsburg in the Prussian Province of Pomerania (present-day Wiatrołom, Poland), the daughter of Heinrich von Puttkamer (1789–1871) and his wife Luitgarde Agnes von Glasenapp (1799–1863). Her ancestors of the Puttkamer noble family, first mentioned in the 13th century, belonged to the '' Uradel'' dynasties of Farther Pomerania and were known for their devoted pietism.Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009 Johanna grew up in neighbouring Reinfeld estate (Barnowiec), which her father acquired shortly after her birth. Life Johanna met Otto von Bismarck, then owner of Kniephof estate (Konarzewo), in 1844. The Prussian Junker had associated with Pomeranian pietist circles around Adolf von Thadde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesko Von Puttkamer
Jesko Albert Eugen von Puttkamer (2 July 1855 in Berlin – 23 July 1917 in Berlin) was a German colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Kamerun: *13 May 1887 – 4 October 1887 *14 August 1890 – 2 December 1890 *31 December 1894 – 27 March 1895 *5 May 1895 – 26 October 1895 *11 September 1897 – 12 January 1898 *14 October 1898 – 17 January 1900 *16 November 1900 – 3 February 1902 *2 October 1902 – 9 May 1904 *31 January 1905 – January 1906. He has left a splendid residential manor in Buea, Cameroon. See also * Colonial heads of German Cameroon External links * 1855 births 1917 deaths German colonial people in Kamerun Military personnel from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg Jesko Jesko or Jesco is a male given name, which is used among Slavs and in Germany. It is a short form of Jaromir or Jaroslaw and may mean "the peaceful one", "the brave one", "the proud one" or "the soldierly one". There may be a link with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
