Famous People with Name Konrad

Konrad Gessner            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Konrad Gessner: was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria (Gesneriaceae) is named after him.In 1535, religious unrest drove him back to Zürich, where he made an imprudent marriage. His friends again came to his aid, enabled him to study at Basel (1536), and in 1537 obtained for him the professorship of Greek at the newly founded academy of Lausanne (then belonging to Berne). Here he had leisure to devote himself to scientific studies, especially botany. In 1540-1541 he visited the famous medical university of Montpellier,

Konrad Krzyzanowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Konrad Krzyzanowski: was a Polish painter of powerful expressionist landscapes and vivid portraits. Born in Kremenchuk in Ukraine, he died in Warsaw. His art studies began in Kiev and were continued in St. Petersburg and Munich. In Warsaw he was a professor at the School of Fine Arts. He took his students for summer open–air sessions around Poland and to Lithuania and Finland. His seascapes were painted mostly in Finland. His works are mentioned briefly in a review of a show of "Independents" at the Royal Albert Hall, published in The New Age, Vol 5, p256.

Konrad Winkler            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Konrad Winkler: a former East German Nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1970's and early 1980's.He won a gold medal in the Nordic combined Individual event at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, then finished second behind Tom Sandberg in the same event in 1982. Winkler also earned bronzes in the Individual Nordic combined events at the 1976 Winter Olympics and at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Winkler also won gold in the 3 x 10 km event at the 1982 championships.

Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein: was the most important pro-Nazi politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists.In the first half of the 1930s, Henlein held a pro-Czechoslovak and overtly anti-Nazi view in his public speeches and did not become a follower of Adolf Hitler until 1937, when the pro-German camp within the Sudeten German Party (SdP) represented by Karl Hermann Frank emerged victorious.

Konrad Guderski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Konrad Guderski: was a Polish engineer and military officer. He was the organizer and commander of the defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig in the first hours of the German invasion of Poland, 1939.

Mario Konrad            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Mario Konrad: is an Austrian football defender for SK Rapid Wien.

Cole Konrad            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cole Konrad: is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently a student at the University of Minnesota and former wrestler for the Golden Gophers. Konrad won a gold medal at the 2005 Pan-American Championships. He won the NCAA wrestling championships in 2006

Franz Konrad            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Franz 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 wi

Kai A. Konrad            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kai A. Konrad: is a German economist with his main research interest in public economics. Konrad got his university degrees at the University of Heidelberg (Diplom in Economics, 1985) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Doctoral degree in economics 1990, and

Christoph Werner Konrad            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Werner Konrad: is a German politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia from 1994 to 2009. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.