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Góntia
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Góntia (Guntia, Candida, Fortuna), was a Celtic moon goddess; her name comes from the Welsh word canda (shining..
Güntersberge
Güntersberge is a small town in the district of Quedlinburg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Unterharz. Geography Güntersberge is located in the upper Selketal valley and has a mountainous lake (area: 80,000 m²). Museum Mausefallenmuseum und KuriositÃ..
Günter Baumann
Günter Helmut Baumann (born August 1, 1947 in Annaberg-Buchholz) is a German politician and member of the CDU. External link [Official Website] () ..
Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel (born May 21, 1936) is a German-American biologist. Blobel was born in Waltersdorf, in Silesia in Germany (now Niegoslawice, Poland). He graduated at the University of Tübingen in 1960 and received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967. He was appointed to the Howar..
Günter brothers
Siegfried and Walter Günter were twin brothers and aircraft designers. Their talents were first recognised by Paul Bäumer who was impressed by the performance of a sailplane they had built with their friends Walter Mertens and Werner Meyer-Cassel and were flying at Wasserkuppe. Bäumer offered all..
Günter Brus
Günter Brus (born September 27, 1938, Ardning, Styria) is an Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer. Co-founder in 1964 of Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism) together with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison after the "Kunst und Revo..
Günter Eich
Günter Eich (1907 February 1 - 1972 December 20) was a German lyricist, dramatist, and author. He was born in Lebus, on the Oder River, and educated in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. He published one work in 1940. After being held as a prisoner of war, he was one of the founders in 1947 of Gruppe 47..
Günter Faltin
Günter Faltin (born 25 November, 1944) is a German economist and entrepreneur. Born in Bamberg, Franconia, he graduated with a Dr. phil. from the University of Konstanz. His thesis investigates Milton Friedman‘s theory of consumer's behaviour. Since 1977 Professor of Economics at the Free Unive..
Günter Grass
Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning Kashubian-German author. He was born in Danzig (now Gdańsk) in 1927. Since 1945 he has lived in the former West Germany, but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood. He is still best known for his fi..
Günter Guillaume
Günter Guillaume (February 1, 1927 – April 10, 1995), was an intelligence agent of East Germany's secret service, the Stasi. Guillaume emigrated with his wife, Christel to West Germany in the 1950s with orders to penetrate the West German political system and report on it. He rose through t..
Günter Hotz
Günter Hotz (16 November, 1931) is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuits and computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in ..
Günter Meisner
Gunter Mesiner (b. April 18, 1926 in Bremen, Germany - d. in December 5, 1994 in Berlin, Germany) was a character movie actor. Mesiner is best remembered as Mr. Slugworth in the 1971 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. ..
Günter Müller
Günter Müller is a percussionist and drummer active primarily in free improvisation. Müller was born in München, Germany in 1954 but has lived in Switzerland since 1966. Originally a drummer in various jazz enembles, Müller grew interested in free improvisation and began utilizing various ext..
Günter Netzer
Günter Netzer (born September 14, 1944 in Mönchengladbach) is a former German football player and manager currently working in the media business and as a TV commentator. Career as a player Netzer played for the 1. FC Mönchengladbach from age eight before changing to city rival Borussia Mön..
Günter Nooke
Günter Nooke (born January 21, 1959) ''is a German Politician (CDU) and a former civil rights activist. Contents 1 Background2 Politician3 Administration4 External links Background Nooke was born in Forst (region Lusatia), Germany, a small town in the State of Brandenburg. H..
Günter Parche
Günter Parche (b. July 4 1954 in Hengen, Germany) was a 38-year-old unemployed German lathe operator on April 30 1993, when he infamously stabbed tennis player Monica Seles, then ranked No. 1 in the world, with a knife during a tournament in Hamburg. The incident occurred during a quarter-final ma..
Günter Raphael
Günter Raphael (1903–1960) was a German composer. He was born April 30 1903 in Berlin. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of National Socialism - he was declared a half-Jew - made this ..
Günter Reimann
This article is about the economist; for other people named Riemann see Riemann (disambiguation). Günter Reimann or Guenter Reimann (November 13 1904, Angermünde, Germany - February 5 2005 New York) born Hans Steinicke was a member of the German Communist Party and at the forefront of the underg..
Günter Reisch
Günter Reisch, (born 24 November, 1927) is a German film director. External links [IMdb record] ..
Günter Rexrodt
Dr. Günter Rexrodt (September 12 1941 - August 19 2004) was a German politician. He lived in Berlin. Contents 1 Education and work2 Family3 Party life4 Representative5 Public offices Education and work After the abitur in 1960 in Arnstadt Thuringia and an extra year in ..
Günter Schabowski
Günter Schabowski (born January 4, 1929) was an official of the SED party in East Germany, famous for accidentally beginning the destruction of the GDR border system. Schabowski was born in Anklam, Pomerania (now part of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). He studied journalism in..
Günter Sommer
Günter Baby Sommer (1943 Dresden) is a German jazz drummer. He studied music in Dresden. He rose to fame in the GDR. He is part of the European free jazz avantgarde. He was part of the trio with Conny Bauer and Peter Kowald. He is now professor for drums and percussion in Dresden. ..
Günter Verheugen
Günter Verheugen (born 28 April 1944 in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 25-member Barroso Commission. Günter Verheugen Günter Verheugen was p..
Günter Wächtershäuser
Günter Wächtershäuser, a chemist turned patent lawyer, is mainly known for his groundbreaking and influential work on the origin of life, and in particular his iron-sulfur world theory, a theory that life on Earth had hydrothermal origins. The theory is consistent with the hypothesis that life o..
Günter Wallraff
Günter Wallraff (born October 1, 1942 in Burscheid near Cologne) is a German writer and undercover journalist. Wallraff came to prominence thanks to his striking research methods which have been given the name wallraffen in German, "to wallraff". This style of research is based on what the repor..
Günter Wand
Günter Wand (born January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany; died February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was one of the outstanding German orchestra conductors of the 20th century. He was also a composer. Wand was born in Elberfeld and studied in Wupertal, Allenstein and Detmold. He studie..
Günter Zöller
Günter Zöller (born May 21 1948 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany) is a German figure skater and figure skating coach. Zöller was a child when he began figure skating. His coach was Jutta Müller. He skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and represented East Germany. In 1967 he won the East German..
Günther
The Germanic first name Günther or Guenther, also Gunthar, refers to various medieval persons, including: Blessed Gunther, a Bohemian hermiteGunther of Cologne As a family name, it refers to: Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830–1914),Christian Günther (1886–1966), Swedish Foreign Minist..
Günthersleben-Wechmar
Günthersleben-Wechmar is a free municipality in the German state (Bundesland) of Thuringia. Its current population (as of June 2005) is 3097 inhabitants. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Places to see4 Sources Geography Günthersleben-Wechmar is located right next to A4, one ..
Günther Bechem
Günther Bechem (alias: Bernd Nacke) (born 21 December 1921 in Hagen, Germany) was a Formula One racing driver. He started out in the 1952 German Grand Prix racing for BMW under the alias Bernd Nacke. He failed to finish the race, and so did not score any championship points. He continued driving AF..
Günther Beckstein
Günther Beckstein (born November 23, 1943 in Hersbruck) is a Bavarian politician from the CSU party. He is the Interior Minister of Bavaria. He is quite well known outside Bavaria for his outspoken views on law and order. ..
Günther Behnisch
Günther Behnisch is a German architect (born 1922 in Dresden, Germany); Behnisch is one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism. Architecture firm in Stuttgart, Germany since 1952 and Los Angeles, CA, USA since 1999. completed projects: 1972 Olympic Stadium Munich in Mun..
Günther Blumentritt
Günther Blumentritt (February 10, 1897-October 12, 1967) was a German general. Born in Munich, he served in the German Army in World War I on the Eastern Front in Prussia. Later, during the interwar period he served under Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, along with his friend Erich von Manstein. In 19..
Günther Bornkamm
Günther Bornkamm was a German New Testament scholar, he was Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg. A student of Rudolf Bultmann with Ernst Käsemann (Tübingen), Ernst Fuchs (Marburg) and Hans Conzelmann (Göttingen). He was a proponent of the Second Quest for the Historical..
Günther Csar
Günther Csar (born March 7, 1966) is a former Austrian Nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980's and early 1990's. He won a Bronze Medal in the Nordic combined Team Event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and also won a Gold Medal in the Team Event at the 1991 Nordic skiing W..
Günther Dyhrenfurth
Günther Dyhrenfurth was a Swiss mountaineer and Himalayan explorer. He led the International Expedition to Kangchenjunga in 1931, and the Swiss Himalaya expedition of 1930. References [Broad Peak 1934 link] ..
Günther Förg
Günther Förg (born 1952) is a German painter, graphic designer and photographer. His abstract style is influenced by American abstract painting. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. ..
Günther Gerszo
Günther Gerszo Wendland (June 17, 1915 - April 21, 2000), although relatively unknown outside the art cognoscenti, is viewed by some critics as comparable to Pablo Picasso and Joaquin Torres Garcia. He is "one of the greatest Latin American painters," according to Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-..
Günther Herbig
Günther Herbig (born November 30, 1931 in Ústà nad Labem, current-day Czech Republic) is a German conductor. He studied conducting with Hermann Abendroth, Hermann Scherchen and Herbert von Karajan. After operatic jobs in Erfurt and Potsdam, he held principal conductor positions with the Dresden ..
Günther Jauch
Günther Johannes Jauch (born July 13 1956 in Münster) is one of Germany's most famous television hosts. He is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, but currently lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea (Dorothea) Jauch and his 4 children (2 natural, 2 adopted). Jauch is known for a uni..
Günther Landgraf
Günther Landgraf (September 14, 1928 - January 12 2006 in Dresden) was a German physicist and former President of Dresden University of Technology (1990-1994). Günther Landgraf was born in Kryry, in Bohemia (now Czech Republic). He came to Dresden in 1938 and studied physics. Landgraf graduated..
Günther Lütjens
Admiral Günther Lütjens (25 May 1889 - 27 May 1941) was a German Naval commander during World War II. Early Career Günther Lütjens was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and entered the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) school in 1907. He spent his formative years on the light cruiser SMS F..
Günther Maleuda
Günther Maleuda (born 20 January 1931) was an East German. From 13 November 1989 to March 1990 he was the President of the People's Chamber (East German Parliament). He was born in Altbeelitz. In 1950 he joined the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands). Fro..
Günther Maul
Günther E. Maul (1909-1997) was a German ichthyologist and taxidermist in Portugal. Maul came to Madeira in the 1930s, and was the impetus for the construction of a large aquarium in Funchal. He described at least one type of shark and has several species of fish named for him[[Citing s..
Günther Merkenich
Günther Merkenich (16 June 1939) born in Cologne, Germany, is an artist who has created a number of graphic works depicting various views and interpretations of the historical buildings of the city of his birth, which are displayed at the Stadt Museum of Cologne. Of particular note is his seminal ..
Günther Nenning
Günther Nenning in 2000 DDr. Günther Nenning (December 23 1921 in Vienna - May 14 2006 in Waidring) was a famous Austrian journalist, author and political activist. After an excellent performance in high school, Nenning served from 1940 to 1945 in the German Wehrmacht. At the end of World ..
Günther Oettinger
The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Guenther Oettinger. Günther Hermann Oettinger (born October 15 1953 in Stuttgart) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been Minister Pre..
Günther Prien
Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – 7 March 1941) was one of the ten outstanding U-boat aces of the first part of the Second World War, and the first U-boat commander to win the Knight's Cross. Under Prien's command, the submarine U-47 sa..
Günther Quandt
Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 - 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW, Altana (pharmaceuticals) and VARTA (batteries). Eight of the hundred currently richest Germans are among his relatives. He was born in Pritzwalk in Germany, the so..
Günther Rall
Günther Rall (10 March, 1918) was the third most successful Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War 2. He achieved a total of 275 victories, 272 on the Eastern Front, of which 241 were against Soviet fighters. He flew a total of 621 combat missions, was shot down 8 times and wounded 3 times. He was ..
Günther Schifter
Günther Schifter Günther Schifter (born December 23, 1923) is an Austrian journalist, radio presenter and record collector. Born in Vienna, Schifter started collecting 78s of the popular music of the interwar years already as a boy. After the war, he was instrumental in popularizing once a..
Günther Schütz
Günther Schütz was a German citizen who performed a mission for German Intelligence (Abwehr) in World War II. Contents 1 Early Life2 Military Career2.1 Abwehr3 Mission4 Internment, escape & IRA5 Life after \"The Emergency\"6 Footnotes7 Further Information..
Günther Seiffert
Günther Seiffert (born October 18 1937) is a former racing driver from Germany. He made one attempt at Formula One, entering the 1962 German Grand Prix with a Lotus run by Wolfgang Seidel's team. The car was shared with Seidel himself, but they failed to qualify it. ..
Günther Simon
Günther Simon, (11 May, 1925 - 25 June, 1972) was an East German actor. ..
Günther Smend
Günther Smend (born 29 November 1912 in Trier; died 8 September 1944 in Berlin) was a German officer and a resistance fighter involved in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Life Günther Smend was born in Trier to Captain Julius Smend. After being wounded in battle, his father was poste..
Günther Stein
Günther Stein was an American print journalist. Stein was a foreign correspondent in China for the Manchester Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Associated Press. He was the first American permitted to interview Mao Zedong in 1944. Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Stein of spying..
Günther von Kluge
Hans Günther von Kluge (October 30, 1882–August 19, 1944), was a German military leader. He was born in Posen into a Prussian military family. Kluge, being familiar with the Blitzkrieg concept, became a Field Marshal. During World War I he was a staff officer and in 1916 was at the Battle of ..
Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck
Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck (born 25 August, 1856 in Pressburg, modern Bratislava, died 23 June, 1931 in Prague) was a prominent German botanist He was a director of the department of botany of the Natural History Museum of Vienna and professor at the University of Vienna and Unive..
Günther von Schwarzburg
Günther von Schwarzburg (1304-1349), German king, was a descendant of the counts of Schwarzburg and the younger son of Henry VII, count of Blankenburg. He distinguished himself as a soldier, and rendered good service to the emperor Louis IV on whose death in 1347 he was offered the German throne, ..
Günther von Schwarzenberg
Günther von Schwarzenberg was the eighth Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. ..
Günther von Wüllersleben
Günther von Wüllersleben (died on the 3rd or 4th of May, 1252 in Acre) was the eight Grand Master of the Teutonic Order between 1249 and 1252. He hailed from Hessen from a family residing in Wüllersleben near Stadtilm. As a Catholic knight, he spent most of his time in Palestine. He was one of th..
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