All Entries Tagged With: "Adolf Hitler"
Vladimir Nabokov
Date of Birth: 23 April 1899 Birth Name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) Mini Biography: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 22, 1899, the eldest of five children in a wealthy aristocratic family in St. Petersburg, Russia. His grandfather was a Justice Minister to the Czar Alexander II. His father, named [...]
Ernest Lenart
Date of Birth: 8 November 1912 Mini Biography: Ernest Lenart began his career on the German stage in the early 1930s, but the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis caused him to leave Germany and settle in the U.S. He was primarily known as a stage actor, although he did appear in [...]
Pierre Laval
Date of Birth: 28 June 1883 Mini Biography: Born in Auvergnac, France, on June 28, 1883, Pierre Laval graduated college with a law degree and went into business. He was elected to the French parliament as a Socialist in 1903, and when war broke out in 1914 he enlisted in the French army. The war [...]
Henry Koster
Date of Birth: 1 May 1905 Birth Name: Hermann Kosterlitz Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: Henry Koster was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany, on May 1, 1905. His maternal grandfather was a famous operatic tenor, Julius Salomon (who died of tuberculosis in the 1880s). His father was a salesman of ladies unmentionables [...]
Olga Knipper-Chekhova
Date of Birth: 9 September 1868 Birth Name: Olga Leonardovna Knipper Mini Biography: Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (nee Knipper) was born on September 9, 1868, in Glasov, Russian Empire, into the family of a German origin. She received an excellent private education and was bilingual, being fluent in Russian and German.She was one of the original [...]
Lev Knipper
Date of Birth: 3 December 1898 Mini Biography: Lev Konstantinovich Knipper was born on December 3, 1898, in Tbilisi, Russia. He grew up in a bilingual family and spoke perfect Russian and German. His German father, named Konstantin Knipper, worked as a Railroad Engineer. Lev Knipper was the nephew of actress Olga Knipper-Chekhova, the wife [...]
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Date of Birth: 4 October 1903 Height: 6′ 4½” (1.94 m) Mini Biography: Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born in 1903 in the Austrian city of Ried. In the 1920s he went to law school and became a lawyer, starting his own practice in Linz in 1929. During this time he also became a professional fencer. In [...]
Oskar Homolka
Date of Birth: 12 August 1898 Mini Biography: Because of his heavy generically “European” accent and Slavic-sounding surname (not an uncommon one among Czechs or Slovaks), many people assumed Oscar Homolka was Eastern European or Russian. In fact, he was born in Vienna (then Austria-Hungary), the multicultural capital of a large multi-ethnic empire at the [...]