Famous People with Name Siegmund

Siegmund Breitbart            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Siegmund Breitbart: was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero. He was known as the "Strongest Man in the World" and "The Ironking" during the 1920s, and was born into an Orthodox Jewish family of blacksmiths in Lódz. He traveled and performed extensively in Europe and America. He gained American citizenship in 1923.Breitbart became a legend and took on the proportions of a national hero in Europe and America, only to die tragically and ironically at the age of 32. In a demonstration in which he drove a spike through five one-inch thick oak boards resting on one of his knees using only his bare hands, his knee was accidentally pierced. The wound became infected, which led to fatal blood poisoning. Both legs were amputated in an effort to stem the infection, but they failed. Zishe Breitbart succumbed after eight weeks. He is buried in a cemetery in Berlin.

Siegmund Glücksmann            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Siegmund Glücksmann: was a German-Jewish socialist politician. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most prominent figures of the German minority socialist movement in Poland, functioned as its 'party ideologue' and represented the more Marxist oriented wing of the movement.[1]Glücksmann studied secondary school in Wadowice (Wadowitz), were he joined a socialist students organization. In 1905 he shifted to Kraków to study Law at the Jagiellonian University. He worked with socialist publications, and in 1910 he became a member of the Jewish Social Democratic Party (ZPSD).[1]

Siegmund Mewes            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Siegmund Mewes: is a retired East German football player and manager.Mewes began to play football at age 7 when he joined BSG Rotation Magdeburg. In 1961 he moved to BSG Aufbau Elbe and in 1965 he was delegated to DDR-Oberliga club SC Aufbau Magdeburg. here he played in

Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten: was a German Protestant theologian born in Wolmirstedt. He was a brother to philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. Baumgarten was a follower of the philosophical teachings of Christian Wolff, and is regarded as a transitional theologian from the Pietism of Philipp Jakob Spener and August Hermann Francke to that of modern rationalism. He was a prodigious writer and published works on exegesis, hermeneutics, dogmatics and history. He was author of the first sixteen volumes of the Allgemeine Welthistorie (General World History), which after his death was continued by his assistant Johann Salomo Semler.

Günter Siegmund            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günter Siegmund: is a German heavyweight boxer who won the bronze medal in international competitions.