Col. Holger Toftoy arranged for 127 individuals, including Wernher von Braun, to receive contracts for work on Army missiles.

Gen. Holger Toftoy ( left to right ) in the 1950s

In August 1945, Colonel Holger Toftoy, head of the Rocket Branch of the Research and Development Division of the US Army's Ordnance Corps, offered initial one-year contracts to the rocket scientists ; 127 of them accepted.

Guitars on this tour were handled by Alan Darby ( who was replaced shortly after by German guitarist Holger Larish ) and Zoe Nicholas and Susie Webb were brought aboard to provide back-up vocals.

After Red Army Faction member Holger Meins died in prison, the Movement 2 June attempted a kidnapping of Superior Court Justice Günter von Drenkmann, who was killed in the process.

" The Flute Concerto, in two movements, was written for the flautist Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, a member of the Copenhagen Wind Quintet who had performed in Nielsen's Wind Quintet ( 1922 ).

Avalon also plays a role in non-Arthurian French literature, such as Li coronemenz Looïs ( in which appears the phrase por tot l ' or d ' Avalon " for all the gold of Avalon "), the stories of Holger Danske, who was taken there by Morgan le Fay in a medieval romance, and in the story of Melusine.

Londen, citing unnamed acquaintances of the Svedlin family, states that Holger ( who had adopted the name Ior, meaning Eeyore in Swedish ) had displayed irrational behaviour and that his mother had been unable to cope with him since his adopted father had died the previous year.

Ogier the Dane ( French: Ogier le Danois or archaically Ogier de Danemarche, Danish: Holger Danske ) is a legendary character who first appears in an Old French chanson de geste, in the cycle of poems Geste de Doon de Mayence.

He was identified in 1942, by Holger Dyggve, as Jean II of Nesle ( near Amiens ), who was nicknamed ' Blondel ' for his long blond hair.

In 1991 Petersen stood down as party chairperson, he was replaced by Holger K. Nielsen, who was – compared to the other candidate Steen Gade – closer to the party's socialist past.

Holger Klaus Meins ( October 26, 1941-November 9, 1974 ) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison.

Holger Voss is a German Internet user who was sued in January 2003 for a sarcastic comment pertaining to the September 11, 2001 attacks in an Internet discussion forum, a case that attracted nationwide attention in Germany.

In 1958, the school district renamed the stadium " Jeppesen Stadium " for school board member Holger Jeppesen, who had vigorously lobbied for its construction.

In 1966, he met and befriended Holger Czukay, who was his guitar teacher for a while.

He gained some fame as a sculptor in New York, then moved to Germany where he became a friend of Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay, who were forming a band.

The libretto is by Jenő Heltai, who rewrote a folk tale by Holger Drachmann.

The label is owned by Holger Petersen, who also hosts the weekly series Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio One and Natch ' l Blues on the CKUA Radio Network.

Schmidt was born to Holger and Ingrid Schmidt, who lived and worked on a farm.

Holger Thesleff, who suspected that Plato collaborated with younger associates in writing many of the works attributed to him, considered the closely related style of Laws and Epinomis to be a " secretary's style.

They had two children, son Holger Roed, who would become an artist like his father, and daughter Helena ( Helena Nyblom, née Roed ), Swedish-Danish writer who would marry Carl Rupert Nyblom, art historian and member of the Swedish Academy.

Holger Pedersen (; 7 April 1867 – 25 October 1953 ) was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages.

Holger Meins had studied film and was a veteran of the Berlin revolt ; his short feature How To Produce A Molotov Cocktail had been seen by huge audiences.

This success received a blow in March 1789, when an opera, Holger Danske, which he had written, was received with heated controversy and a nationalist reaction against him ( as an associate of Germans ) set in.

Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of post-psychedelic jamming and moody progressive rock mixed with ideas from contemporary experimental classical music ( especially composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, with whom, for example, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay of Can had previously studied ) and from the new experimental directions that emerged in jazz during the 1960s and 1970s ( mainly the free jazz pieces by Ornette Coleman or Albert Ayler ).

Mr. Li had reportedly backed personal and commercial banking head Holger Kluge to succeed Al Flood as CEO of CIBC in 1999.

On 1 June 1972, Raspe along with Andreas Baader and Holger Meins had gone to check on a garage in Frankfurt where they had been storing materials used to make incendiary devices.

" Canadian historian Holger H. Herwig claims the plan started as a result of discussions by Hitler in November 1940 and May 1941 when he stated his need to “ deploy long-range bombers against American cities from the Azores .” Due to their location, he thought the Portuguese Azores islands were Germany's “ only possibility of carrying out aerial attacks from a land base against the United States .” At the time, Portuguese dictator Salazar had allowed German U-boats and navy ships to refuel there, but from 1943 onwards, he leased bases in the Azores to the British, allowing the Allies to provide aerial coverage in the middle of the Atlantic.

Cantodea and Holger worked together with what little money they had to purchase musical equipment and recorded three demo tapes: Es reiten die Toten so schnell ..., Rufus and Till Time and Times Are Done.

In 2002 she married fellow hammer thrower Holger Klose and the couple had a son.

Ior Bock (; originally Bror Holger Svedlin ; 17 January 1942 – 23 October 2010 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish tour guide, actor, mythologist and eccentric.

He resuscitated the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis, originally expounded by Holger Pedersen in 1903, and coined the modern term Nostratics.

* Hünersdorff, Richard von & Hasenkamp, Holger G. ( 2002 ) Coffee: a bibliography: a guide to the literature on coffee London: Hünersdorff

The first written set of team handball rules was published in 1906 by the Danish gym teacher, lieutenant and Olympic medalist Holger Nielsen from Ordrup grammar school north of Copenhagen.

* Holger Höhne ( born 1970 ), a curler playing for the German national team and a medalist at several World Curling Championships

McKenna has been a regular for the Canadian national team since 2002, when he featured in the CONCACAF Gold Cup as a target man for Holger Osieck's side.

Unter uns was in a scare of cancellation in 2009, which was prevented by budget cuts and the firing of original cast member Holger Franke.

The Canadian historian Holger Herwig wrote that the Z Plan was Raeder's fantasy given that the Z Plan fleet would take 8 million tons of oil whereas in 1939 Germany imported a total of only six million tons of oil.

The Canadian historian Holger Herwig argued that Raeder wanted a splinted command structure in order to increase his power, and that adding an extra layer of bureaucracy was unhelpful to efficiency.

Raeder admitted in the Seekriegsleitung war diary that " The operation really breaks all the rules of naval warfare theory ", which the Canadian historian Holger Herwig wrote strongly suggests that Raeder's real reason for Weserübung was his desire to win the Kriegsmarine glory in the war as part of an effort to compete with the army and air force for funding.

* Holger K. Nielsen former leader of the Socialist People's Party, was born in Ribe and graduated from Ribe Katedralskole in 1969.

Its last mayor was Holger Hedegaard, a member of the Venstre ( Liberal Party ) political party.

Acquired by Tresor TV television producer Holger Roost-Macias at the MIPTV Media Market event in Cannes, France in 2000, the series was the third adaption of the format following both an Australian and a New Zealand version.

It was founded and financed by Holger Crafoord.

The work was premiered by Edmund Neupert on April 3, 1869 in Copenhagen, with Holger Simon Paulli conducting.

It was founded in 1961 by the Danish artist Asger Jorn, Peter Glob and Werner Jacobsen from the National Museum of Denmark and Holger Arbman of the University of Lund, Sweden, after Jorn left the Situationist International during one of its many upheavals.

According to Magnus Londen's article, young Holger Svedlin was sent off to an orphanage for one year at age nine.

According to Magnus Londen, the time in theatre training was both a joyous time when Holger was able to exert his gregarious side — he loved being the centrepiece of all social activity — but it was also darkened by his sense of lacking a real, and significantly credible, identity.

This composition was designed in Darmstadt and made in Cologne, in the studio of the composer, based on sound-samples of Ligia Liberatori ( voice ), Holger Müller-Hartmann ( fagot ), Gustavo Fontes ( doublebass ), Damian Zangger ( tuba ); and the voices of the pupils, in April and May 2001.