Hans Langsdorff - Hans Langsdorff Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the Panzerschiff (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Plate. Langsdorff was born on the island of Rügen in 1894, the eldest son of a family with legal and religious traditions rather than a naval tradition. In 1898 the family moved to Düsseldorf, where they were neighbours of the family of Count (Graf) Maximilian von Spee, who was to become a German naval hero (while losing his entire command) in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. Influenced by his honoured neighbours, Langsdorff entered the Kiel Naval Academy against his parent's wishes in 1912. During the First World War the then-Lieutenant Langsdorff.
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Admiral Graf Spee - 1939, she was found by the British Hunting Group G - the 8-inch gunned cruiser HMS Exeter, and 6-inch gunned light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles - in the Battle of the River Plate. After taking relatively superficial damage and retreating to the neutral port of Montevideo, the ship was scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff to avoid risking the crew in what he thought would be a losing battle..
Battle of the River Plate - intense gunnery action where the German cruiser had the advantage of longer range and heavier guns, while the British were able to divide fire, the Graf Spee eventually headed for Montevideo harbour in Uruguay. Exeter had been severely damaged in the battle, and British propaganda efforts were made to convince Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee that an overwhelming British force was being assembled, when in fact only the heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland was available and was being sent from the Falkland Islands. Intense negotiations were undertaken, Uruguay being neutral. While the ship was prevented from leaving the harbour, Captain Langsdorff consulted with his command in Germany. He received orders that permitted various options, but not internment in Uruguay. He chose to scuttle his ship in the Rio de la.
List of famous suicides - lead singer of rock group INXS Phyllis Hyman, (1995), singer I-M Judas Iscariot, (1st century), according to the Bible, betrayed Jesus Isocrates, (338 BC), Greek rhetorician Jim Jones, (1978), reverend, leader of the "People's Temple" cult. Died during mass suicide that cost the lives of more than 500 in Guyana. Sarah Kane, (1999), British playwright Terry Kath, (1978), guitarist, Chicago (died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound) Brian Keith, (1997), American actor (Family Affair) Dr. David Kelly, (2003), British scientist and source of BBC story about the Dodgy Dossier Heinrich von Kleist, (1811), German dramatist and poet Hans von Kluge, (1944), German Field Marshal Arthur Koestler, (1983), Hungarian novelist, political activist and social philosopher Hannelore Kohl, (2001), wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl Jerzy Kosinski, (1991), Polish-American author Paul Lafargue, (1911),.
J. Hans D. Jensen - J. Hans D. Jensen Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907 - 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. (The other half of the prize was awarded to Eugene P. Wigner for unrelated work.) External Links J. Hans D. Jensen.
Hans Christian Orsted - Hans Christian Orsted Hans Christian Ørsted (August 14,1777 in Rudkøbing - March 9,1851 in Copenhagen) was a Danish physicist and chemist, influenced by the thinking of Immanuel Kant. In 1820 he discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism in a very simple experiment. He demonstrated that a wire carrying a current was able to deflect a magnetised compass needle. Ørsted did not suggest any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon, nor did he try to represent the phenomenon in a mathematical framework. In 1825 he made a significant contribution to chemistry by producing aluminum for the first time. See also: James Clerk Maxwell, physics..
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt - Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 - 1964) was a German neuropathologist. He was born in Harburg. See also Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Hans Selye - Hans Selye Hans Selye (1907 - 1982) was an Austrian physician who did much important theoretical work on the physical effects of stress. He is considered to have been the first to demonstrate the existence of a separate stress disease, the stress syndrome, or General adaptation syndrome. To grossly oversimplify, Selye discovered and documented that stress differs from other physical responses in that stress is stressful whether the news is good or bad, whether the impulse is positive or negative. He called negative stress distress and positive stress eustress. Selye is said to have discovered the stress syndrome when in medical school he observed that people who had various illnesses seemed to share a quality of "sickness" that was highly similar. He was the author of.
Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen, (April 2 1805 - August 4 1875) was an author and poet famous for his fairy tales. He was born at Odense, Denmark, on the 2nd of April 1805. He was the son of a sickly young shoemaker of twenty-two and his several years older wife: the whole family lived and slept in one little room. Hans Christian showed imagination early, which was fostered by the indulgence of his parents and by his mother's superstition. In 1816 the shoemaker died and the child was left entirely to his own devices. He ceased to go to school; he built himself a little toy-theatre and sat at home making clothes for his puppets, and reading all the plays that he could borrow;.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher - Hans-Dietrich Genscher Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP; born March 21, 1927) is a German politician and long-serving Foreign Minister of Germany. Born at Reideburg, Saalkreis, near Halle, in what later became East Germany, he served in the Wehrmacht from 1943 to 1945 and briefly became an American and British prisoner of war. After World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig (1946-1949) and joined the East-German Liberal Democratic Party (LDPD) in 1946. In 1952, Genscher left East Germany for the West, where he joined the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He passed his second state examination in law in Hamburg in 1954 and became a solicitor in Bremen. In 1965, he was elected to the Bundestag for the first time, a seat.
Hans-Georg Gadamer - Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 - March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 work on epistemology and the scientific method, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). Gadamer was influenced greatly by the works of Wilhelm Dilthey, and Martin Heidegger (with whom he studied). Gadamer is also noted for his debates with fellow philosopher Jürgen Habermas. He was born in Marburg, Germany, and died in Heidelberg, Germany. Quotes Nothing exists except through language. I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old..
Hans Baldung - Hans Baldung Hans Baldung or Hans Baldung Grien (c. 1480 - 1545). German (Alsatian) Renaissance artist. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer. See also: Early Renaissance painting External Links Biography and examples of work at the "WebMuseum" by Nicolas Pioch Biography and examples of work at "Olga's gallery" Works.
Hans Richter - Hans Richter Hans Richter was a Dadaist artist, filmmaker and writer. He was born on April 6, 1888 in Berlin and died on February 1, 1976 in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. One of the founders of the Dada movement, he was active in Zürich, Switzerland from 1916 to 1920. He moved to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen. Richter was also the author of a first-hand account of the Dada movement titled Dada: Art and Anti-Art. Hans Richter was also the name of a well known German conductor (1843-1916). He is noted as one of Richard Wagner's greatest champions..
Hans von Bodeck - Hans von Bodeck Hans von Bodeck, born in the Hansa city state of Elbing in 1582, belonged to an old and prominent Elbing family. His grandfather was Bürgermeister or mayor and his father was a Stadtrat city councillor. Ancestor Johann III von Bodeck (1542- 1595) of this distinguished patrician family of Elbing had the von Bodeck family imperial status re-affirmed by emperor Rudolf II, who at the same time upgraded the family crest. Hans, while on study tour throughout Europe, attended Oxford and Cambridge. He apparently attended the funeral ceremony for the English queen, Elizabeth and the coronation of the new English king, James I. The council of Elbing had sent two delegates with dual missions: firstly, to pay its respects to the new king and.
Hans Holbein - Hans Holbein Hans Holbein is the name of two German Renaissance painters: Hans Holbein the Elder (1460-1524) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543), his son, who painted many portraits of the court of King Henry VIII of England This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Hans Holbein the Elder - Hans Holbein the Elder Self portrait Hans Holbein (1460 - 1524) was a German painter. Hans Holbein the Elder (around 1460/5-1524) was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style. Hans the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style. His sons Hans Holbein the Younger and Ambrosius Holbein had their first painting lessons from him..
Hans Holbein the Younger - Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 - 1543) was an artist who painted in the Northern Renaissance style. He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria. He first learned painting from his father Hans Holbein the Elder. Later he went with his brother Ambrosius Holbein to Basel where he met many scholars, among them the Dutch humanist Erasmus. Erasmus asked him to illustrate his satires. Holbein also illustrated other books, including contributing to Martin Luther's translation of the Bible. Like his father, he designed stained-glas windows and painted portraits. The Reformation made it difficult for Holbein to support himself as an artist in Basel and he set out for London. Erasmus furnished him with a letter of introduction addressed to the English statesman and.
Hans Duerer - Hans Duerer Hans Duerer was born and died in Nuremberg. Hans Duerer became the court painter for Sigismund I of Poland. Hans Duerer as well as many other Nuremberg artists went to live and work in Krakow for some time, where there are still many of their artworks on display. His older brother was Albrecht Duerer, famous for his paintings and woodcuts..
Hans von Kulmbach - Hans von Kulmbach Artist Hans von Kulmbach (originally Hans Suess of Kulmbach, Franconia) was born about 1480 and died in 1528 in Nuremberg. Hans von Kulmbach was the artist who created the Krakow St. Johns Altar (inscription: Johannes Suess civis norimbergensis). He received instruction by Jacopo de' Barbiri, who for a time worked in Nuremberg. Von Kulmbach then apprenticed with Albrecht Dürer. He later had his own workshop in Nuremberg and at times also worked at Krakow. He also created art works for emperor Maximilian I and for Margrave Casimir Hohenzollern von Brandenburg-Kulmbach. His best works were glass windows in churches, such as the Maximilian window, Margrave window at St. Sebald in Nuremberg, the Welser window at the Frauenkirche and the Nikolaus altar at Lorenzkirche. In.
