Wirth
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Wirth is a German
surname which may refer to any of the following individuals:
Wirths
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...
surname which may refer to any of the following individuals:
- Ann Fisher-WirthAnn Fisher-WirthAnn Fisher-Wirth is an American poet and scholar.Her books include Blue Window: Poems, The Trinket Poems, and William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature....
(1947–Present), AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poet and university professor - Christian WirthChristian WirthChristian Wirth was a German police and SS officer who was one of the leading contributors to the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard....
(1885–1944), notorious member of the NaziNazismNazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
SchutzstaffelSchutzstaffelThe Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
(SS) involved in the Action T4Action T4Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...
program and Operation ReinhardOperation ReinhardOperation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps... - Christian WirthRaD ManChristian Wirth , better known by the pseudonym RaD Man, is an American computer artist and historian. He works in the field of ANSI art, a method of creating art using a limited set of text characters and color escape codes based loosely on the relevant ANSI standard .RaD Man was initially...
(a.k.a. RaD Man), computer art historianHistorianA historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and founder of ACiDACiD ProductionsACiD Productions is a digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for BBSes. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development... - George WirthGeorge WirthGeorge Wirth is a singer-songwriter from Brick, New Jersey. Born in 1947, he only began performing professionally as a musician in 1995. Wirth has been called one of New Jersey's finest singer-songwriters. He is the recipient of the 2010 Asbury Music Award in the Top Male Acoustic category. He has...
(1947-Present), a singer-songwriter from New JerseyNew JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. - James Wirth (listed as Peter Wirth)
- John WirthJohn WirthJohn Davis Wirth was the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Wirth earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a doctorate in Latin American history in 1967 from Stanford. His dissertation was entitled Brazilian economic nationalism: trade and...
(1936–2002), AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
historian and university professor - Karl Joseph WirthJoseph WirthKarl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922.-Biography:...
(1879–1956), Chancellor and Finance Minister of Germany - Louis WirthLouis WirthLouis Wirth was an American sociologist and member of the Chicago school of sociology.-Life:Louis Wirth was born in the small village of Gemünden in the Hunsrück, Germany. He was one of seven children born to Rosalie Lorig and Joseph Wirth. Gemünden was a pastoral community, and Joseph Wirth...
(1897–1952), AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
sociologistSociologySociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
of German origin and member of the Chicago School of sociologyChicago school (sociology)In sociology and later criminology, the Chicago School was the first major body of works emerging during the 1920s and 1930s specialising in urban sociology, and the research into the urban environment by combining theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, now applied elsewhere... - Max WirthMax WirthMax Wirth was a German journalist and economist.- Life :Max Wirth is the son of Johann Georg August Wirth, a Bavarian writer and organizer of the Hambach Festival in 1832. Max studied law and political economy at the University of Heidelberg, where he joined the Corps Rhenania...
(1822–1900), German journalist and economist - Niklaus WirthNiklaus WirthNiklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.-Biography:Wirth...
(1934–Present), Swiss computer scientist, designer of several programming languageProgramming languageA programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
s - Nick WirthNick WirthNicholas John Peter "Nick" Wirth is an automotive engineer and the founder and owner of Wirth Research.He is also the former owner of the Simtek Formula One team, a former aerodynamicist at March and former technical director at the Benetton, and Virgin Racing teams.- Education and early...
(1966-Present), British automotive engineer - Oswald WirthOswald WirthOswald Wirth was a Swiss occultist, artist and author. He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislas de Guaita, and in 1889 he created a set of Tarot trumps based on the Marseilles deck. His interests also included Freemasonry and astrology.-External links:* * *...
(1860–1943), Swiss Tarot writer and occultist - Friar (James) Peter WirthPeter WirthFriar James was born in Niederbreitbach / Wied-Valley in Rhineland-Palatinate on 15 October 1830 as Peter Wirth. He was the fourth child of Theodor and Katharina Wirth. His father was a shepherd; his mother ran a small pub. When he was nine, Peter lost his father, and he lost his mother a year later...
(1830–1871), founder of the congregation of the Franciscan brothers of the Holy Cross (FFSC) - Theodore WirthTheodore WirthTheodore Wirth was instrumental in designing the Minneapolis system of parks. Swiss-born, he was widely regarded as the dean of the local parks movement in America. The various titles he was given included administrator of parks, horticulturalist, and park planner. Before emigrating to America...
(1863–1949), Swiss born, horticulturalist, architect of Minneapolis park system - Tim WirthTim WirthTimothy Endicott Wirth is a former United States Senator from Colorado. Wirth, a Democrat, was a member of the House from 1975 to 1987 and was elected to the Senate in 1986, serving one term there before stepping down. He was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs during the Clinton...
(1939–Present), former United States SenatorUnited States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
and leader of the United Nations FoundationUnited Nations FoundationThe United Nations Foundation started up in 1998 with a $1 billion grant from Ted Turner in order to support the United Nations in executing its programs worldwide. The creation of the Foundation was intended to encourage other donors to also support the UN in its activities... - Wilhelm WirthWilhelm WirthWilhelm Wirth was a German psychologist.He was taught by Wilhelm Wundt.- External links :* http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~psycho/hist2.html...
(1876–1952), German psychologist - Donald Robert Wirth (1957–Present), noted engineer and automation specialist
Wirths
- Eduard WirthsEduard WirthsEduard Wirths was the Chief SS doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945...
, Nazi SS chief physician at Auschwitz concentration camp and Holocaust perpetrator
See also
- Wirth Lake (disambiguation)
- Wirt (disambiguation)
- The Wirth CompaniesThe Wirth CompaniesThe Wirth Companies, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, most notably owns and operates the Minneapolis Grand Hotel, and the Grand Rios Indoor Water Park Hotel. It also owns a wireless infrastructure company and numerous other commercial properties that it leases....
, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota