Jürgen
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Jürgen is a popular given name in Germany
. It is a variant of George
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is a variant of George
George (given name)
George, from the Greek word γεωργός , "farmer" or "earth-worker", which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word γεωργός is a compound word, formed by the words ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon , "work"...
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- Jürgen BarthJürgen BarthJürgen Barth is a German engineer and a former racecar driver. He is the son of Formula One driver and sports car racer Edgar Barth....
- Jürgen BartschJürgen BartschJürgen Bartsch was a German serial killer who murdered four children and attempted to kill another....
- Jürgen BertowJürgen BertowJürgen Bertow is a German rower, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won the medals at the international rowing competitions.- References :...
- Jürgen BlinJürgen BlinJürgen Blin was a German boxer who on 26 December 1971 was knocked out in the seventh round by Muhammad Ali.Blin's record in the ring was 31-11-6 with nine knockouts. He was greatly admired by German boxing fans for his toughness and stamina in the ring...
- Jürgen BogsJürgen BogsJürgen Bogs is a German football manager who managed Berliner FC Dynamo to ten consecutive DDR-Oberliga titles .-References:...
- Jürgen Brähmer
- Jürgen BräuningerJürgen BräuningerProfessor Jürgen Bräuninger is a South African composer.Jürgen Bräuninger studied at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Ulrich Süsse and Erhard Karkoschka and at San Jose State University, California, with Allen Strange and Dan Wyman. He has contributed to films such...
- Jürgen BuddayJürgen BuddayJürgen Budday is a German conductor, director of church music and music teacher. He is artistic director of the concert series at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Maulbronn Abbey, of the choir 'Maulbronner Kantorei' and of the Maulbronn Chamber Choir.- Biography :Jürgen Budday studied music...
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- Jürgen Cain KülbelJürgen Cain KülbelJürgen Cain Külbel is a German former criminal investigator of the GDR, who became a journalist after the reunification of Germany.Jürgen Cain Külbel came to international light after publishing a counter-investigation on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. In it,...
- Jürgen ChrobogJürgen ChrobogJürgen Chrobog is a German jurist, diplomat, and German Ambassador to the United States from 1995 to 2001.-Life:...
- Jürgen ColinJurgen ColinJurgen Romano Colin is a Dutch footballer who plays for Anorthosis Famagusta FC in Cyprus, as a defender.-Club career:...
- Jürgen ColomboJürgen ColomboJürgen Colombo is a retired track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Günter Haritz, and Udo Hempel.-References:...
- Jürgen CroyJürgen CroyJürgen Croy is a former international football goalkeeper for the German Democratic Republic.-Sporting career:...
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- Jürgen GaußJürgen GaußJürgen Gauß is a German theoretical chemist.He was born 13 August 1960 in Konstanz. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1979 till 1984...
- Jürgen GeschkeJürgen GeschkeHans-Jürgen Geschke is a retired track cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972. After having won the silver medal in the Men's Tandem, alongside Werner Otto, he claimed the bronze medal in the Men's 1.000m Sprint at the...
- Jürgen GjasulaJürgen GjasulaJürgen Gjasula is an Albanian-German footballer who plays as a midfielder for MSV Duisburg in the 2nd Bundesliga.-Football career:...
- Jürgen GmehlingJürgen GmehlingJürgen Gmehling is a German professor for technical and industrial chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.-Biography:...
- Jürgen GoslarJürgen GoslarJürgen Goslar is a German actor and director.-Selected filmography:* The Last Witness * Derrick - Season 3, Episode 9: "Ein unbegreiflicher Typ"...
- Jürgen Grabowski
- Jürgen GrafJürgen GrafJürgen Graf is a Swiss Holocaust denier and researcher. He studied philology at the University of Basel studying French, English, and Scandinavian languages and spent several years working as a school teacher at a prestigious private school. He is fluent in 15 languages...
- Jürgen-Peter GrafJürgen-Peter GrafDr. Jürgen-Peter Graf is a German lawyer. He became judge of the German Federal Court of Justice on February 5, 2003....
- Jürgen GrohJürgen GrohJürgen Groh is a retired German football player. He spent 12 seasons in the Bundesliga with Hamburger SV and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He represented Germany in two friendlies.-Honours:* European Cup winner: 1982–83...
- Jürgen GröblerJürgen GröblerJürgen Gröbler is a German rowing coach, formerly the Olympic team coach of East Germany and later of Great Britain...
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- Jürgen Haase
- Jürgen HabermasJürgen HabermasJürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
- Jürgen HartmannJürgen HartmannJürgen Hartmann is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s.-Career:...
- Jürgen HenkysJürgen HenkysJürgen Henkys is a German Protestant minister.Henkys became a lecturer at the Sprachenkonvikt in East Berlin and the Professor for Practical Theology at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 1991. He is especially known for his translations of foreign-language hymns into German...
- Jürgen Henn
- Jürgen HeuserJürgen HeuserJürgen Heuser is a German weightlifter.In 1978, participating for the German Democratic Republic, he won the World Championship in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow he won a silver medal in the +110 kg class.-External links:* at sports-reference.com...
- Jürgen Hildebrandt
- Jürgen HingsenJürgen HingsenJürgen Hingsen is a former West German decathlete who won several medals at international championships and Olympic Games in the 1980s, and held the decathlon world record in 1982 and again from 1983 to 1984....
- Jürgen HorstJürgen HorstJürgen Horst , is a German record producer and sound engineer best known for his collaborations with musician Flula Borg, his cousin...
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- Jürgen Kiessling
- Jürgen Kießling
- Jürgen KlinsmannJürgen KlinsmannJürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...
- Jürgen KloppJürgen KloppJürgen Norbert Klopp is a retired German footballer and current manager of Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga....
- Jürgen KochJürgen Koch-Career:Koch competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in men's singles. He lost in the second round to Wong Wai Lap, of Hong Kong, 17-18, 15-6, 15-3. Koch played the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's singles, and was defeated in the first round by Anup Sridhar, of India, 21-15, 21-19...
- Jürgen KockaJürgen KockaJürgen Kocka is a German historian.A university professor and former president of the Social Science Research Center Berlin , Kocka is a major figure in the new Social History, especially as represented by the Bielefeld School...
- Jürgen KohlerJürgen KohlerJürgen Kohler is a World Cup-winning German centre back football player and football manager. Kohler has retired from professional sports, but still occasionally plays for Alemannia Adendorf in the Kreisliga C...
- Jürgen KurbjuhnJürgen KurbjuhnJürgen Kurbjuhn is a former German football player.Kurbjuhn had excelled as a youth-international for West Germany during his time with amateur club Buxtehuder SV and joined Hamburg's biggest, Hamburger SV, in 1960 when the club had just been crowned German football champion...
- Jürgen KuresooJürgen KuresooJürgen Kuresoo is an Estonian professional footballer, playing for FC Elva in Estonian III Liiga Lõuna. He plays the position of Midfielder and is 1.76 m tall.-International career:...
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- Jürgen MachoJürgen MachoJürgen Macho is an Austrian footballer who plays for Panionios F.C. in the Greek first division, as a goalkeeper.-Club career:...
- Jürgen MandlJürgen MandlJürgen Mandl is an Austrian footballer , decathlete, and bobsledder who competed from the mid 1970s to the early 1990s....
- Jürgen MayJürgen MayJürgen May is a former middle-distance runner, who was a successful athlete and Olympic Games competitor, who escaped from the GDR to continue his career in the FRG.-Successes in the GDR:...
- Jürgen MelzerJürgen MelzerJürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but...
- Jürgen MilewskiJürgen MilewskiJürgen Milewski is a retired German footballer. He spent eight seasons in the Bundesliga with Hannover 96, Hertha BSC and Hamburger SV...
- Jürgen MittelstraßJürgen MittelstraßJürgen Mittelstraß is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science.He was born in Düsseldorf in 1936 and studied philosophy, history and protestant theology at Bonn, Erlangen, Hamburg and Oxford from 1956 till 1961.He received his Ph.D...
- Jürgen MoltmannJürgen MoltmannJürgen Moltmann is a German Reformed theologian. The 2000 recipient of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.-Moltmann's Youth:...
- Jürgen MoserJürgen MoserJürgen Kurt Moser or Juergen Kurt Moser was a German-American mathematician.-Professional biography:...
- Jürgen MöllemannJürgen MöllemannJürgen Wilhelm Möllemann was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party. He served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office , as Federal Minister of Education and Research , as Federal Minister of Economics and as Vice Chancellor of Germany in the government of Chancellor Helmut...
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- Jürgen PaekeJürgen PaekeJürgen Paeke is a German gymnast and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo He won international at competition. - References :...
- Jürgen PahlJürgen PahlJürgen Pahl is a former goalkeeper in football. He fled together with Norbert Nachtweih from a match of the East Germany under-21 team to West Germany and was subsequently banned for a year. He played from 1978 to 1987 in the Bundesliga team Eintracht Frankfurt and won the 1980 UEFA Cup with them...
- Jürgen PanisJürgen PanisJürgen Panis is an Austrian footballer who currently plays for Austrian team LASK Linz.-Club career:Panis started his professional career with Admira Wacker before moving to LASK Linz in 1997. He won his first silverware with FC Tirol Innsbruck, then with Vienna giants Austria Wien where he was...
- Jürgen PartenheimerJürgen PartenheimerJürgen Partenheimer is among the most renowned German artists of his generation. Since his participation at the Paris Biennial in 1980 and the Venice Biennial in 1986, his work has been widely shown internationally.-Work:...
- Jürgen PatockaJürgen PatockaJürgen Patocka is an Austrian football player who currently plays for Rapid Vienna as a defender.-Club career:Late-developing Patocka started his professional career with Second Division outfit SC Austria Lustenau for whom he played over three seasons before making his debut in the top flight...
- Jürgen PezziJürgen PezziJürgen Pezzi is an Italian luger who competed during the 1990s. A natural track luger, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1994 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Gsies, Italy....
- Jürgen PommerenkeJürgen PommerenkeJürgen Pommerenke is a former German football midfielder and manager.Pommerenke played his entire professional career for 1...
- Jürgen PontoJürgen PontoJürgen Ponto, was a German banker and chairman of the Dresdner Bank board of directors. Previously, he had worked as a lawyer...
- Jürgen Preuss
- Jürgen ProchnowJürgen ProchnowJürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot , Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune , the minor, but important role of Neo-Stalinist dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the villain Maxwell Dent in...
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- Jürgen RaabJürgen RaabJürgen Raab is a former East German football player.-Career:In the DDR-Oberliga Jürgen Raab played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena 376 games and scored 120 goals.-International career:...
- Jürgen ReilJurgen ReilJürgen "Ventor" Reil is the long-time drummer for German thrash metal band Kreator. He is one of the only two original members left in the band, although he has left it "at least twice" due to personal differences, but has come back....
- Jürgen RiegerJürgen RiegerJürgen Rieger was a Hamburg lawyer, and deputy chairman of the National Democratic Party of Germany , known for his Holocaust denial....
- Jürgen RohwerJürgen RohwerJürgen Rohwer is a German naval military historian and Professor of history at the University of Stuttgart. He is currently residing in Weinstadt, Germany...
- Jürgen RolandJürgen Roland- External links :*...
- Jürgen RosenthalJurgen RosenthalJürgen Rosenthal is a German rock drummer. He was a member of Uli Jon Roth's band Dawn Road, but became a member of the Scorpions, along with Roth and Francis Buchholz, when Dawn Road was annexed into a lineup with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker. He appeared on one album, Fly to the Rainbow,...
- Jürgen RöberJürgen RöberJürgen Röber is a German football player and manager, who is head coach of Ankaraspor.-Early life:In 1956 his family moved from the then GDR to Bertlich in Northrhine-Westphalia. There he grew up and started his football career at SuS Bertlich.-Career:His Bundesliga career lasted 12 years with one...
- Jürgen RüttgersJürgen RüttgersJürgen Rüttgers is a German politician and former Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, widely known for his views on immigration and the much-discussed phrase "Kinder statt Inder" which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer müssen unsere Kinder an die Computer"...
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- Jürgen SchadebergJürgen Schadeberg-Overview:Jürgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931. In 1950, he moved to South Africa to rejoin his family and joined Drum magazine as official photographer and layout artist....
- Jürgen SchmidhuberJürgen SchmidhuberJürgen Schmidhuber is a computer scientist and artist known for his work on machine learning, universal Artificial Intelligence , artificial neural networks, digital physics, and low-complexity art. His contributions also include generalizations of Kolmogorov complexity and the Speed Prior...
- Jürgen SchmudeJürgen SchmudeJürgen Dieter Paul Schmude is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was born in Insterburg East Prussia, Germany, ....
- Jürgen SchreiberJurgen SchreiberJurgen Schreiber was CEO and President of Shoppers Drug Mart Corp., also known as "Pharmaprix" in the Quebec province, from March 30, 2007 until his resignation on January 26,2011. Schreiber joined Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in June 2001. Schreiber was...
- Jürgen Schreiber
- Jürgen E. SchremppJürgen E. SchremppJürgen Erich Schrempp was until December 31, 2005, the CEO of DaimlerChrysler, a German-American car and truck manufacturer. Following a decision of the board taken on July 28, 2005, he was succeeded on January 1, 2006, by Chrysler frontman Dieter Zetsche...
- Jürgen Schröder (disambiguation)
- Jürgen SchultJürgen SchultJürgen Schult is a former German track and field athlete and the current world record holder in the discus throw since 1986, currently the longest standing record in men's track and field...
- Jürgen SchützeJürgen SchützeJürgen Schütze was a German racing cyclist, who won the bronze medal at the Olympics. He competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo.- References :...
- Jürgen SeebergerJürgen SeebergerJürgen Seeberger is a German football manager currently managing VfB Stuttgart II.- Coaching career :He started his managerial career at FC Schaffhausen in Switzerland in 2000 and coached the club until 2007, when he was let go due to bad results...
- Jürgen SeyfarthJürgen SeyfarthJürgen Seyfarth is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam/Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won the medals at international rowing competitions.- References :...
- Jürgen SparwasserJürgen SparwasserJürgen Sparwasser is a retired German football player and later briefly a football manager.Sparwasser started his playing career in the youth department of his hometown club BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt in 1956. In 1965 he moved to 1. FC Magdeburg where he gave his senior debut in January 1966...
- Jürgen StarkJürgen StarkJürgen Stark is a German economist who has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from June 2006, but announced in September 2011 he would resign later that year...
- Jürgen StraubJürgen StraubJürgen Straub is a former East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres....
- Jürgen StroopJürgen StroopJürgen Stroop, , was a high-ranking Nazi Party and Gestapo official during World War II. In 1952, he was extradited to Poland, convicted of war crimes, and hanged.-Early life:Jürgen Stroop was born in Detmold, in the Principality of Lippe, German Empire, the son of a police officer...
- Jürgen F. StrubeJürgen F. StrubeDr. Jürgen F. Strube is the current Chairman of the Supervisory Board of German chemical company BASF SE.-Biography:Strube was born in Bochum, Germany, in 1939. He studied law from 1960 to 1964 in Freiburg, Geneva and Munich, obtained his doctorate in law in Munich in 1967, and passed the 2nd...
- Jürgen Sundermann
- Jürgen SäumelJürgen SäumelJürgen Säumel is an Austrian footballer who plays as a midfielder for SK Sturm Graz.-Club career:After Säumel's contract with SK Sturm Graz expired, he decided to sign for Torino on 22 July 2008 on a three year contract.After a season with Torino and a half-year loan spell at Brescia, he signed...
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- Jürgen van de WalleJurgen Van de WalleJurgen Van de Walle is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Palmares :20002006-External links:...
- Hans-Jürgen von ArnimHans-Jürgen von ArnimHans-Jürgen Bernhard Theodor von Arnim was a German Generaloberst who served during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
- Jürgen von BeckerathJürgen von BeckerathJürgen von Beckerath is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen , Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt , Archiv für Orientforschung and Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur among...
- Jürgen von FarensbachJürgen von FarensbachJürgen von Farensbach was a Baltic German nobleman and Livonian general. Sent as the Ambassador of Livonian Confederation to Czar Ivan IV of Russia, for concluding a peace treaty, he entered the Russian service and won the battle on Oka against the Tatars on August 1, 1572...
- Jürgen von der LippeJürgen von der LippeHans-Jürgen Dohrenkamp , better known by his stage name Jürgen von der Lippe, is a German television presenter, entertainer, actor and comedian...
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- Jürgens (disambiguation)
- JürgensenJurgensenJurgensen or Jürgensen is a surname of Danish origin. The name refers to:*Dennis Jürgensen , Danish author of children’s stories*Eric Jurgensen , general manager and programming director of America Television in Peru...
- Jürgensen
- JürgenshagenJürgenshagenJürgenshagen is a municipality in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. aventura is the best bachata singers in the world Kings of bachata...
- Jürgenson
- JürgenstorfJürgenstorfJürgenstorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany....