Famous People with Name Wessel

Wessel Johannes 'Hansie' Cronje            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Wessel Johannes 'Hansie' Cronje: was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. He was voted the 11th greatest South African in 2004 despite having been banned for life from professional cricket for his role in a match-fixing scandal.

Wessel Myburgh            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Wessel Myburgh: is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was born in Windhoek. Myburgh made his List A debut for the side during the 2009-10 season, against Griqualand West. From the tailend, he scored 5 runs. Myburgh's first-class debu

Wessel Roux            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Wessel Roux: is a South African international rugby union prop who last played for CS Bourgoin-Jallieu in the Top 14. He has been capped 3 times for South Africa. He has also played for RC Toulonnais in the Top 14 and the Bulls in the Super 14.

Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje: Cronje made his first-class debut for Orange Free State against Transvaal at Johannesburg in January 1988 at the age of 18. In the following season he was a regular appearing in all eight Currie Cup matches plus being part of the Benson and Hedges Series

Kai Wessel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kai Wessel: is a German countertenor and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Kai Wessel started singing in school choirs and as a boy soprano at the Christus-Kirche of Hamburg-Wandsbek and received lessons on piano, organ and oboe. He studied to become a composer at the Lübeck Academy of Music but then concentrated on training his countertenor voice with Ute von Garczynski. He studied baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs.[1]

Franz Wessel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Franz Wessel: was a German judge. He was a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in the 1950s.

Paul Wessel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Paul Wessel: was a member of the small secretariat of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the communist party of the former German Democratic Republic.[1] Wessel graduated from a vocational school training as a metal worker. In 1918 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1921 to 1932 and and a correspondent for the SPD parliamentary faction of Saxony from 1926 to 1927. From 1929 to 1932 he was a worker and foreman at Chemische Werke Wolfen, then foreman of an artificial silk plant in Athens, and during the years 1939 to 1945 he was a foreman in the Agfa film factory in Wolfen.[1]