Famous People with Name Hirsch

Hirsch Lehren            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hirsch Lehren: was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.Lehren was prominent in the history of the ?alu??ah in the first half of the nineteenth century. Beginning with 1810, he, as a rich and influential merchant, was entrusted, together with Abraham Prinz and Solomon Reuben, with the responsibility of forwarding to Palestine the contributions which were sent annually to Amsterdam. In 1822 he ruled that in future only one representative, instead of two, should be sent from Palestine for both the Sephardic and the Ashkenazic congregations, and that the money collected for the ?alu??ah should be divided in proportion to the number of persons in the Palestinian congregations in question.

Hirsch Jacobs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hirsch Jacobs: was an American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner. Jacobs was the leading race-winning trainer in the United States 1933-39, 1941-44, the U.S. leading money-winning trainer, 1946, 1960, 1965, and the U.S. leading money-winning breeder, 1964-67. During

Konrad Hirsch            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Konrad Hirsch: was an Swedish football (soccer) player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Swedish team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.

Rudi Hirsch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rudi Hirsch: is a German handballer, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He played at the world championships 1958 (3rd), 1959 (world champion), 1963 (world champion) and 1964.

Peter Hirsch            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Peter Hirsch: is a Danish professional ice hockey goaltender. He is generally seen as the most capable Danish goalie. He currently plays for the Coventry Blaze in the Elite Ice Hockey League.Hirsch has served as Team Denmark's number-one goaltender in the IIHF Ice Hock

Dietmar Hirsch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Dietmar Hirsch: is a retired German football player who last played for VfB Lübeck. Hirsch works now as an athletic director at VfB Lübeck. He began in June 2008.

Clement Lang Hirsch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clement Lang Hirsch: was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Racing Association.In 1936, Clement Hirsch founded the Dog Town Packing Company in Vernon, California which became a highly successful pet food producer he later renamed Kal Kan Foods, Inc. In 1968, Mars, Incorporated acquired the company and today it forms part of their Pedigree Petfoods division. He also was the founder of Stagg Foods of Costa Mesa which he built into the a major producer of canned chili. He sold Stagg Foods in 1996 to Hormel Foods.