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Alfred Berger (25 August 1894 – 11 June 1966) was an Austrian pair skater. With his skating partner, Helene Engelmann , he became the 1924 Olympic champion and a two-time world champion ( 1922 , 1924 ).
The original plaster moulds, executed by Flitzer, were ready in 1938 and were sent to the Bruno Bearzi Atelier in Florence for casting. Bearzi cast the sphere's elements from these plaster moulds using a cire-perdu process from a bronze/zinc high-tin alloy with added lead. The constellations were originally gilded, with chrome-silvered starts.
This is a list of people associated with the modern Switzerland and the ... Alfred Escher (1819–1882 ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), philosopher (Geneva ...
Bruno Beger (27 April 1911 – 12 October 2009) was a German racial anthropologist, ethnologist, and explorer who worked for the Ahnenerbe.In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938–1939 expedition to Tibet, helped the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA) identify Jews, and later helped select human subjects to be killed to create an ...
The MEG, or Geneva Museum of Ethnography, was founded on 25 September 1901, on the initiative of Professor Eugène Pittard (1867-1962), who also held the first Chair of Anthropology at the University of Geneva. [2] It was first housed in Mon Repos villa. [3]
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Engelmann also won World titles in 1922 and 1924 with partner Alfred Berger. They won gold at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix , France. Engelmann did not compete at the European Championships, as her father did, because the pair category was not included until 1930.
The Jesuit Alfred Delp was an influential member of the Kreisau Circle - one of the few clandestine German Resistance groups operating inside Nazi Germany. Jakob Dautzenberg (1897–1979), KPD; Alfred Delp (1907–1945), Catholic church; Ria Deeg (1907–2000), Rote Hilfe; Anton Dey (1892–1973), SPD; Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), actress ...