Karl Konrad Graf von der Groeben
Karl Konrad Wilhelm Alexander Graf von der Groeben- Ponarien( 31 August 1918 in Königsberg6 July 2005 in Baden- Baden) was a German entrepreneur.
Alexander von der Groeben
Alexander von der Groeben( born 5 October 1955) is a German judoka.
He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Ulrike von der Groeben
Ulrike von der Groeben," Ulrike Elfes"( born 25 March 1957 in Mönchengladbach) is a German television sport journalist.
Chris von der Ahe
Christian Friedrich (or Frederick) Wilhelm von der Ahe (October 7, 1851 – June 5, 1913) was a German-American entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals.
Von der Ahe arrived in New York City but quickly moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a clerk in a grocery store.
Later, he bought out the store owner and expanded business by establishing a saloon in the back of the store.
Von der Ahe noticed that a number of his patrons visited the saloon after baseball games, so in 1882, he bought the bankrupt and scandal-ridden St. Louis Brown Stockings baseball franchise for $1,800 and joined the American Association baseball league.
He named the team the Browns and hired future Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey to play first base and eventually manage the team.
Von der Ahe took a very active role in the team, even though he knew almost nothing about baseball.
Other than player/manager/owner Albert Spalding,
Von der Ahe was the first baseball owner with a significant public persona, the predecessor of Bill Veeck, Charlie Finley and George Steinbrenner in this regard.
With his thick German accent ("I am der poss bresident of der Prowns!") bushy mustache and showmanship, he was as much of a story as his players.
The Browns dominated the American Association, winning four straight league championships starting in 1885, and the baseball, beer, and other investments made von der Ahe wealthy.
He made $500,000 off the baseball team alone.
He set the ticket price at 25 cents, hoping fans would spend money on beer.
As a result, the Browns led the league in attendance and soon had to expand his ballpark.
The term "fan" (from fanatic) is sometimes attributed to von der Ahe.
In 1885, von der Ahe erected a larger-than-life statue outside of Sportsman's Park, not of any of his star players, but of himself.
A sportswriter from Denver mockingly dubbed the statue "Von der Ahe discovers Illinois."
Although eccentric, von der Ahe made a number of innovations, including operating a farm club called the St. Louis Whites.
Also, tradition holds that von der Ahe was the first to sell hot dogs at the ballpark, although some historians dispute this.
Von der Ahe billed himself as the "Millionaire Sportsman".
In 1887, after a poor showing in the World Series, the ill-tempered von der Ahe threatened to withhold his players' share of the earnings.
In 1891, he was also majority owner of the Cincinnati Kelly's Killers which played for part of one season in the American Association.
In 1892 the team joined the National League after the American Association folded.
By this time, Comiskey had lost patience with von der Ahe and left for the Cincinnati Reds.
Without Comiskey, the Browns quickly became a last-place team.
Legal problems plagued von der Ahe's ownership, especially in the later years.
In an effort to recoup his losses, in 1892 he moved to a larger ballpark, which he surrounded with an amusement park, complete with beer garden, a horse track in the outfield, a "shoot-the-shoots" water flume ride, and an artificial lake (used for ice skating in winter).
The league, which prohibited gambling on its grounds, disapproved of the race track; so did von der Ahe's outfielders.
The press called the facility "Coney Island West" and nicknamed von der Ahe "Von der Ha Ha."
With losses still piling up, von der Ahe resorted to selling off his best players, mostly to Brooklyn.
In 1898, part of the ballpark burned down during an April game with Chicago; his second wife divorced him; and his bondsman kidnapped him for not paying his debts.
In a highly publicized trial connected with the fire, von der Ahe lost his baseball team.
The Browns changed hands twice and changed their name twice, first to the Perfectos (1899) and then to the Cardinals (1900).
The American League team known as the St. Louis Browns from 1902 to 1953 had no connection to von der Ahe's team aside from the name, which was designed to invoke the memory of the 1885–1889 era.
Von der Ahe soon lost his other wealth as well and was reduced to tending bar in a small saloon.
Comiskey frequently sent von der Ahe money to help make ends meet.
In April 1908, the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns played each other in a benefit game for him.
The club raised $4,300.
He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1913.
He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, with the statue that once stood in front of Sportsman's Park adorning his grave.
In 2015 Von der Ahe was named to the Pre-Integration Committee ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jakob von der Lippe
Jakob von der Lippe( 28 July 1872 – 1953) was a Norwegian admiral.
He was born in Fjell.
He was a grandson of bishop Jacob von der Lippe and a son of dean Johan Nordahl Brun von der Lippe( 1838 – 1915).
Through his uncle Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe he was a first cousin once removed of Frits von der Lippe, Just Lippe and Jens von der Lippe.
He had the same father, and was thus a half- brother, of Anton Barth von der Lippe.
On 13 October 1916 von der Lippe was made the first regular director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, after the service was permanently organized and sorted under the Royal Norwegian Navy's shooting and signals school, which von der Lippe was the head of.
On 14 February the following year von der Lippe was relieved of his position at the shooting and signals school and made full- time commander of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service.
He retained his command until 13 January 1930.
He reached the rank of rear admiral in 1930, and served as the Commanding Admiral of Norway from 1930 to August 1934.
He was also the Chief of the Admiral Staff from 1930 to 1933.
Otto Friedrich von der Groeben
Otto Friedrich von der Groeben( 16 April 1657 – 30 June 1728) was a Prussian explorer, officer and German Generalleutnant in Polish service.
Juan Miguel Paz
Juan Miguel Paz( born 14 May 1966) is a Colombian fencer.
He competed in the épée events at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Friedrich von der Groeben
Friedrich von der Groeben( 1645 – 1712) was a Prussian aristocrat and commander of the Foreign Legion of King John III Sobieski in the Battle of Vienna.
Von der Groeben joined the" Foreign Legion" or" German Infantry" in Polish military service about 1670 and became a lieutenant colonel in 1675 and by the end of the same year its commander and colonel.
After John III Sobieski became King of Poland in 1674 he sent von der Groeben with diplomatic tasks to the Tatars and to the Ottoman Empire to find out as much as possible about the enemy's political and military intentions.
In the Battle of Vienna he captured a pompous Turkish tent, which is claimed to have been the official tent of Kara Mustafa Pasha.
The tent was stored at the manor of Groß Schwansfeld, an estate von der Groeben bought in 1686, till 1907, when it came to the exhibitions of the Berlin Zeughaus.
Today it is part of the display of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.
In 1687 he was promoted to General Major and Sobieski entrusted him with other military operations like the incident at Esztergom, several Moldau campaigns in 1684- 86 and the capture of the fortresses of Soroka and Neamț in 1691.
Von der Groeben became a General Lieutenant in 1693 and remained in Polish service after the Sobieski's death in 1696, now representing the diplomatic interests of Prussia at the Polish court.
Max von der Groeben
Max von der Groeben( born 15 January 1992) is a German actor.
His father Alexander von der Groeben is a former judoka, sports journalist and also an actor.
His mother Ulrike von der Groeben is also a sports journalist.
He has one Sister, Caroline, who also works as an actress.
Hans von der Groeben
Hans von der Groeben (14 May 1907 – 6 March 2005) was a German diplomat, scientist and journalist and member of the European Commission.
Von der Groeben was born in Langheim (today Łankiejmy, Poland) near Rastenburg, East Prussia.
A son of landowner Georg von der Groeben and Eva von Mirbach, he studied jurisprudence and political economics at the Universities of Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen.
After the state exams he became a government advisor in 1933 at the Ministry of Nutrition (Reichsernährungsministerium) and in 1937 transferred to his final advisory position for credit and cooperatives (Referats für das Kredit- und Genossenschaftswesen).
For periods during the Second World War he served as a reserve in the armed forces, ending up as a first lieutenant.
After the war he became a director of government in the Treasury of Lower Saxony.
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ludwig Erhard recruited him from there to work on Germany's response to the Schuman Declaration for better Franco-German relations.
From 1953 he represented the Federal Government in the coordinating committee of the European Coal and Steel Community.
He ranks among the fathers of the European Union, he was one of the authors of the Spaak Report, calling for the establishment of the European Economic Community.
He was vice-chair of the German delegation, led by Alfred Mueller Armack at the 1956 Brussels Conference which led to the Treaty of Rome and was chair of the "Common Market" committee.
He is responsible for the fact that the EEC received a contractually specified free market framework and found a kindred spirit in the French delegation leader, Robert Marjolin.
When the Treaty of Rome came into effect on 1 January 1958, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appointed Von der Groeben as the second German member of the first European Commission, along with Walter Hallstein who became the commission president.
Responsible for competition policy, Von der Groeben set the foundations of the European antitrust rights, introduced the value added tax system as well as the adjustment of the control systems and the European joint patents.
The December 1961 adoption of the European antitrust rights is based on his efforts to unite the French and German systems.
He remained a member of the second Hallstein Commission and the Rey Commission, serving until 1970.
After leaving the commission in 1970 he became an advisor to the CDU on questions of European policy and worked actively as a scientists and journalist.
In 1967 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Frankfurt.
He married Gunhild von Rosenberg in 1934 and they had 3 children.
Von der Groeben died in 2005, aged 97, in Rheinbach near Bonn.

Question: Are Juan Miguel Paz and Hans Von Der Groeben both from the same country?
Answer: no