Wenig
Wenig is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carl Wenig (1830-1908), Baltic-German painter *Devin Wenig (born 1966), American business executive, former CEO of eBay *Josef Wenig (1896-1981), German labour and political activist *Margaret Wenig (born 1957), American rabbi *Obe Wenig Ervine Carl "Obe" Wenig (December 23, 1895 – September 25, 1959) was an American football end who played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Rock Island Independents. From Inwood, Iowa, he attended Morningside College ...

Devin Wenig
Devin Norse Wenig (born 1966) is an American business executive. From July 2015 to September 2019, Wenig was president and CEO of eBay. From April 2008 to August 2011, Wenig was CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets, the financial and media businesses of Thomson Reuters Corporation. He is a director of General Motors and its subsidiary Cruise Automation, an autonomous vehicle company. Early life Devin Norse Wenig was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Carol Wenig and Jeffrey Wenig, a toxicologist, and founder and chief executive of Nastech Pharmaceutical Company of Hauppauge, Long Island. Wenig earned a bachelor's degree from Union College, and a JD degree from Columbia University School of Law. Career At age 23, following his father's unexpected death, Wenig took over as CEO of then-struggling Nastech Pharmaceutical, raising $5 million in venture capital. After a year as CEO, he recruited a healthcare CEO and joined the law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore. In 1993, Wenig join ...
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Josef Wenig
Josef Wenig (17 July 1896 – 16 April 1981) was a German labour and political activist (Communist Party of Germany, KPD). After 1945 he became an important figure in the East Germany, East German political establishment. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, ruling party's powerful Socialist Unity Party of Germany#Central Committee, Central Committee between 1954 and his death in 1981. He was also a member of the country's (less powerful) Volkskammer, National Parliament (''"Volkskammer"'') between 1950 and 1981. Life Josef ("Sepp") Wenig was born in Leiter (now Řebří, a part of Svojšín), a small village in the hills to the west of Plzeň in what was, at that time, western Bohemia, part of the Cisleithania, Austro-Hungarian empire. His parents worked in a brickworks. However, by the time he was old enough to attend school the family had relocated to German empire, Germany, and he grew up in another rural location, Zeulenroda-Triebes, Zeulenroda, a small coun ...
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Carl Wenig
Carl Gottlieb Wenig,. russified as Carl Bogdanovich Wenig (26 February 1830 – 6 February 1908) was a Baltic-German painter of historical and religious scenes. For many years, he was a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Biography His father, Gottlieb (1804-1874), was a music teacher and organist at St. Nicholas' Church. His mother, Agathe (1808-1895), was an amateur artist and the aunt of Peter Carl Fabergé. From 1844 to 1853, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts with Fyodor Bruni. During his time there, he won several medals, including a gold medal for his depiction of Esther before Ahasuerus. Upon graduating, he was awarded a stipend that enabled him to continue his studies in Rome, where he remained for six years. In 1860, he was elected an Imperial Academician for his painting "The Entombment". Two years later, he was recognized as an Artist of Historical Painting on the strength of his depiction of two angels proclaiming the death of Sodom. He began to tea ...
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Margaret Wenig
Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi and writer. Career In 1976, she co-wrote with Naomi Janowitz ''Siddur Nashim'', the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery. Wenig graduated from Brown University in 1978 and was ordained in 1984. Wenig served as a rabbi at Beth Am, The People's Temple, located in New York City, from 1984 to 2000. In 1990, she wrote the widely published sermon "God is a Woman and She is Growing Older." In 2015, Wenig became the first Jewish president of the Academy of Homiletics. Wenig is a senior lecturer in liturgy and homiletics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until .... Personal life Wenig married Sharon Kleinbaum in 2008; they later di ...
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