Konrad
Encyclopedia
Konrad is a given name and surname that is often spelled Conrad in English.
First name
- Konrad AdenauerKonrad AdenauerKonrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
(1876-1967), German politician - Konrad Bloch (1912-2000), German-born American biochemist
- Konrad BoehmerKonrad BoehmerKonrad Boehmer is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth.Boehmer was born in Berlin. His music reflects his Marxist political agenda, which is made explicit in many of his writings from the late 1960s and 1970s...
(born 1941), Dutch composer - Konrad DannenbergKonrad DannenbergKonrad Dannenberg was a German-American rocket pioneer and member of the German rocket team brought to the United States after World War II.-Early years:...
(1912-2009), German rocket scientist - Konrad DoblerKonrad DoblerKonrad Waldemar Dobler is a former long-distance runner from Germany, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. He set his personal best in the men's marathon in 1991.-Achievements:*All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise-References:*...
(born 1957), German long-distance runner - Konrad Gessner (1516-1565), Swiss naturalist
- Konrad GrobKonrad GrobKonrad Grob was a Swiss painter. He was born in Andelfingen in the Canton of Zurich and learned lithography in the 1840s in Winterthur. He travelled to Italy, where he worked in Verona and Naples...
(1828-1904), Swiss painter - Konrad HeidenKonrad HeidenKonrad Heiden was an influential journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of German dictator Adolf Hitler. Often, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus Bredow."Heiden was born in Munich, Germany, on 7 August 1901, and graduated...
(1901-1966), German writer - Konrad HenleinKonrad HenleinKonrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a leading pro-Nazi ethnic German politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists...
(1898-1945), Czechoslovak politician - Konrad LorenzKonrad LorenzKonrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch...
(1903-1989), Austrian scientist - Konrad MägiKonrad MägiKonrad Vilhelm Mägi was an Estonian landscape painter. He was one of the most colour-sensitive Estonian painters of the first decades of the 20th century, and Mägi's works on motives of the island of Saaremaa are the first modern Estonian nature paintings.Mägi received his elementary art...
(1878-1925), Estonian painter - Konrad von MarburgKonrad von MarburgKonrad von Marburg was a medieval German inquisitor. He was commissioned by the Pope to combat the Albigensians, whom the Roman Catholic Church considered heretics...
(died 1233), German inquisitor - Konrad RudnickiKonrad RudnickiKonrad Rudnicki is a Polish astronomer, professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and priest of the Mariavite Church....
(born 1926), Polish astronomer - Konrad TuchschererKonrad TuchschererKonrad Tuchscherer is an educator, scholar, writer, and public intellectual. Tuchscherer currently serves as the Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Cameroon and is Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at St...
(born 1970), American historian - Konrad WolfKonrad WolfKonrad Wolf was an East German film director, son of Friedrich Wolf, brother of Markus Wolf....
(1925-1982), German film director - Konrad von WürzburgKonrad von WürzburgKonrad von Würzburg was the chief German poet of the second half of the 13th century.As little is known of his life as that of any other epic poet of the age. By birth probably a native of Würzburg, he seems to have spent part of his life in Strassburg and his later years in Basel, where he died...
(died 1287), German poet - Konrad ZuseKonrad ZuseKonrad Zuse was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941....
(1910-1995), German computer scientist
Surname
- Alexander KonradAlexander KonradAlexander Eduardovich Konrad was a Russian sailor. Along with Valerian Albanov, he was one of the only two survivors, and the only surviving sailor of the ill-fated Brusilov expedition.-Biography:...
(died 1940), Russian explorer - Christoph KonradChristoph KonradChristoph Werner Konrad is a German politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia from 1994 to 2009...
(born 1957), German politician - Franz KonradFranz KonradFranz Konrad is a former race driver and founder of Konrad Motorsport in 1976.As a driver, he won the 1983 German Formula 3 Championship in an Anson SA4-Toyota. In 1990, he took a career best 2nd in the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Jaguar, then followed this with an overall victory in the...
(born 1951), German racing driver - György KonrádGyörgy KonrádGyörgy Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. He was a dissident under the communist regime.- Life :...
(born 1933), Hungarian writer - Jeffrey KonradKonrad (musician)Konrad is the recording and stage name of Jeffrey Konrad, an American songwriter, record producer and musician. Konrad runs the independent record label Radical Turf Records, a label that specializes in experimental, alternative and electronic music. Konrad has appeared on half a dozen compilation...
, American musician - Otto KonradOtto KonradOtto Konrad is a retired Austrian football goalkeeper.-Club career:Konrad started his professional career with local outfit Sturm Graz, where he stayed 11 years before enjoying a successful period at Austria Salzburg....
(born 1964), Austrian football player - Rob KonradRob KonradRobert Konrad is a former American football fullback of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse...
(born 1976), American football player
Royalty
- Konrad I of MasoviaKonrad I of MasoviaKonrad I of Masovia , from the Polish Piast dynasty, was the sixth Duke of Masovia from 1194 until his death and High Duke of Poland from 1229 to 1232.-Life:...
(1187-1247) - Konrad I, Count of Württemberg (died 1110)
- Konrad II, Count of WürttembergKonrad II, Count of WürttembergKonrad II , Count of Württemberg. He reigned from 1110 until 1143.Konrad's father is unknown, but he is believed to belong to the family of the counts of Veringen . The reason to believe so is due to the similarity of the arms of the Counts of Veringen with that of the Counts of Wirtemberg...
(died 1143)
Fiction
- Konrad Saga, series of novels by David Ferring
- Konrad (assassin)Konrad (assassin)Konrad is a fictional character in William Gibson's novel All Tomorrow's Parties. An anonymous and quasi-mystical assassin, Konrad is moved by the Tao in all his actions, heedless of the demands of his employers. He is clad in nondescript clothing and carries a tantō, which he wields with sublime...
, fictional character in the 1999 novel All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Other uses
- Konrad KM-011Konrad KM-011The Konrad KM-011 was a sports prototype built for Group C racing in the 1991 World Sportscar Championship season. The car was part of a brief partnership between Konrad Motorsport and Lamborghini.-Development:...
sportscar - Operation KonradOperation KonradOperation Konrad was the German-Hungarian effort to relieve the encircled garrison of Budapest during the Battle of Budapest in January 1945. The operation was divided into three parts:...
- Sankt KonradSankt KonradSt. Konrad is a town located in the Gmunden district in the state of Upper Austria in Austria. The town, located 585 m above sea level, is part of the Salzkammergut resort area in Austria.-External links:*...
, Austria - Schacht KonradSchacht KonradThe pit Konrad is a former iron ore mine proposed as a deep geological repository for medium- and low level radioactive waste in the city Salzgitter in the Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig...
, proposed radioactive waste repository in Germany