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26-1416: Wallenberg is a Swedish surname which may refer to: People [ edit ] Adolf Wallenberg (1862–1949), German internist and neurologist André Oscar Wallenberg (1816–1886), Swedish banker, industrialist, newspaper tycoon, father of Knuth Agathon, Marcus Sr., Victor Gustaf Wally (born Wallenberg, 1905–1966), Swedish dancer, actor and theatre manager Jacob Wallenberg (1892–1980) Swedish banker and industrialist, son of Marcus Sr. Jacob Wallenberg (born 1956), Swedish banker and industrialist, son of Peter Sr. Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853–1938), Swedish banker and politician, half-brother of Marcus Sr. Marc Wallenberg (1924–1971), Swedish banker and industrialist, son of Marcus Jr. Marcus Wallenberg (bishop) (1774–1833), Swedish theologian and bishop, father of André Oscar Marcus Wallenberg Sr. (1864–1943), Swedish banker and industrialist, father of Jacob and Marcus Jr. Marcus Wallenberg Jr. (1899–1982), Swedish banker and industrialist, son of Marcus Sr., father of Peter Sr. Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956) , Swedish banker and industrialist, son of Marc Peter Wallenberg Sr. (1926–2015), Swedish industrialist, son of Marcus Jr. Peter Wallenberg Jr. (born 1959), Swedish businessman, son of Peter Sr. Raoul Wallenberg (1912–1947?), Swedish diplomat acclaimed for his role in saving

52-621: A Soviet -installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. The Jord-Just youth anti-communist resistance organization was established in Starogard in 1951 by 16-year-old girl Teresa Block. The organization was eventually crushed by the communists, who sentenced 17 teenage members to 1.5 to 9 years in prison. Note that the above table is based on primary, possibly biased, sources. The Polish National road 22 and Voivodeship road 222 pass through

78-454: A neolithic settlement from four to five thousand years ago. The area became part of the emerging Polish state under its first ruler Mieszko I of Poland in the 10th century, and during the fragmentation period in Poland it was part of a Pomeranian duchy, which separated from Poland in 1227. Starogrod (as Starigrod) was first mentioned in 1198 when Duke Grzymisław II of Pomerania granted

104-896: A great number of Jews in the Holocaust Victor Wallenberg (1875–1970), Swedish sports shooter, brother of Marcus Sr. Wallenberg family , prominent Swedish family, renowned as bankers, industrialists, politicians, diplomats and philanthropists Other [ edit ] Wallenberg Medal , University of Michigan award and endowment Wallenberg expressway , Highway in Rockford, Illinois, named after Raoul Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School , in San Francisco, California Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation , Swedish private foundation Wallenberg's Syndrome , also known as Lateral medullary syndrome Raoul-Wallenberg-Straße station , railway station in

130-637: A practitioner. From 1907 to 1928 he served as director of the internal medicine department at the hospital, attaining the title of professor in 1910. When the Nazis came to power, he was stripped of his research laboratory and forced to stop working because he was Jewish. He emigrated to Great Britain in 1938, then relocated to the United States in 1943, where he died several years later in Manteno, Illinois . While working with Ludwig Edinger he described

156-617: Is 50 km (31 mi) from the Tricity ( Polish : Trójmiasto ) agglomeration on the coast of Gdańsk Bay . The name Starogard means "old city" in the Pomeranian language . Gdański is appended in the 20th century to the name to differentiate it from other places named Starogard. The German name Preußisch Stargard (Prussian Stargard) was similarly used to disambiguate from other places named Stargard. ( See Stargard (disambiguation) ). Archeological evidence indicates remnants of

182-624: Is a city in Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland with 48,328 inhabitants (2004). Starogard is the capital of Starogard County . It is also the second biggest city (after Tczew ) of the ethnocultural region Kociewie and is populated by Kociewians . Starogard Gdański is located in Pomerania on the small river Wierzyca, about 21 kilometres (13 miles) south-west of Tczew , 40 km (25 mi) south of Gdańsk and 67 km (42 mi) north-east of Chojnice . It

208-626: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adolf Wallenberg Wallenberg was born in Preussisch Stargard into a Jewish family. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig , receiving his doctorate from the latter institution in 1886. From 1886 to 1888 he worked as an assistant in the Städtisches Krankenhaus in Danzig , where he settled as

234-657: The Intelligenzaktion . Arrested Poles were then held both in the pre-war prison and the medieval Gdańsk Tower and often subjected to brutal beatings and mistreatment, especially clergymen, some of whom had even swastikas cut into their foreheads. Already in September 1939, the Germans murdered 150 Poles, including inhabitants of Starogard, Skórcz and Gdynia , in the city and its vicinity. Beginning in September 1939 in nearby Szpęgawski Forest (north-east of

260-475: The German Empire . In the same year, it was connected to the rail network and in 1900 a water and gas network was built in the city. At the beginning of the 20th century, the city had a Protestant church, a Catholic church, a synagogue, a grammar school, a preparatory institute, a district court, a Reichsbank branch, a main tax office and a number of commercial operations. According to the census of 1905,

286-557: The Great Emigration led through the city. In 1871, a large vodka distillery was built on the western end of city, which survived both world wars and today produces Sobieski and Krupnik . It is one of Europe's oldest continuously run vodka distilleries, and one of only a very small handful of vodka distilleries predating 1945. In 1871, with the Prussian-led unification of Germany , Preußisch Stargard became part of

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312-744: The Kingdom of Poland upon the request of the Confederation, and the city recognized the King as the rightful ruler. In 1461 the Teutonic Knights took over Starogard, which was then eventually recaptured by Poland in July 1466. In the peace treaty signed in Toruń a few months later in 1466, the Teutonic Knights renounced any claims to the city, and recognized it as part of Poland. It became part of

338-501: The Pomeranian Voivodeship in the province of Royal Prussia in the larger Greater Poland Province . It remained under Polish rule until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia under the name Preußisch Stargard . The city was subjected to Germanisation policies. One of the main escape routes for insurgents of the unsuccessful Polish November Uprising from partitioned Poland to

364-592: The Second Polish Republic . In the interbellum it was a county seat administratively located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland. During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, the city was invaded by Nazi Germany , and then the German Einsatzkommando 16 and SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann" entered the city to commit various crimes against Poles . Under German occupation ,

390-505: The "Adolf Wallenberg-Preis" was awarded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie for outstanding contributions made in the field of cerebrovascular disease , cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral metabolism. Starogard Gda%C5%84ski Starogard Gdański ( Polish pronunciation: [staˈrɔɡard ˈɡdaj̃skʲi] ; until 1950: Starogard ; Kashubian : Starogarda ; formerly German : Preußisch Stargard )

416-605: The 1308 Teutonic takeover of Gdańsk . In 1348 the town received city rights under Kulm Law by Grandmaster Heinrich Dusemer . Since 31 March 1440 Starogard was a member of the Prussian Confederation . It took an active part in the 1454 uprising against the Teutonic Order that led to the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66) . In 1454, Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon re-incorporated the region to

442-1257: The Marzahn-Hellersdorf district of Berlin Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States , organization based in the United States Raoul Wallenberg Award , bestowed by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States Marcus Wallenberg-hallen , vehicle museum in Södertälje, in the Swedish province of Sörmland Wallenberg Set , popular spot for skateboarders at the Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School Wallenberg (opera) , 2001 opera by Erkki-Sven Tüür about events in Raoul Wallenberg's life Topics referred to by

468-757: The Stadion Miejski. The town was home to the Polish World Cup football player and Olympic Gold Medal winner Kazimierz Deyna . Deyna grew up in Starogard Gdański, and the local Stadion Miejski im. Kazimierza Deyny is named after him. There is also a statue to him in the seating area of the ground, and a heritage trail through the town which takes in his birthplace, family home and murals to the sportsman. Starogard Gdański also boasted Olympic bronze medal winner Oktawia Nowacka . Michael Hicks , an Olympian that represents Poland in 3x3 Basketball at

494-474: The avian brain, and also examined the role of the olfactory system in the assessment, recognition, and ingestion of food. He described the clinical manifestations (1895) and the autopsy findings (1901) in occlusions of the arteria cerebelli posterior inferior (Wallenberg's syndrome). With Edinger, and later alone, he published the " Jahresberichte über die Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Anatomie des Zentralnervensystems " (1895–1928). From 1996 until 2019

520-421: The city was annexed into the newly formed Regierungsbezirk Danzig in the new province of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia . The Polish population was subjected to mass arrests, imprisonment, tortures, massacres, expulsions , deportations to concentration camps and to forced labour . The Germans immediately carried out mass arrests of Polish teachers, priests and local activists in the town and county as part of

546-560: The city) Germans killed in mass executions about 7,000 Poles , among them 1,680 Kocborowo (district of Starogard) and Świecie psychiatric hospitals patients. About 500 handicapped children were killed in the hospital, in Action T4 . 2,842 patients died between 1940 and 1944. Polish hospital staff was either murdered in the Szpęgawski Forest or deported to concentration camps or to forced labour to Germany. A local parish priest

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572-627: The city, and the A1 motorway runs nearby, east of the city. There is a train station in Starogard. The town's most notable sports club is basketball team SKS Starogard Gdański , which plays in the Polish Basketball League (Poland's top division), Polish Cup winners in 2011, and runners-up in 2006. The local football club is KP Starogard Gdański , and it competes in the III liga (Polish fourth tier). The team plays in green and white at

598-502: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wallenberg . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wallenberg&oldid=1121967576 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Swedish-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description

624-642: The settlement to the Knights Hospitaller . The Slavic name Stargarde was mentioned in 1269. In 1282, Mestwin II and Polish Duke Przemysł II signed the Treaty of Kępno , which transferred the suzerainty over Gdańsk Pomerania including Starogard to Przemysł II and reunited the region with Poland. Together with the rest of Gdańsk Pomerania it came under the rule of the Teutonic Knights during

650-790: The town had a population of 10,485, of which 6,297 (60.1%) were Germans . In 1906–1907, local Polish children joined the children school strikes against Germanisation that spread throughout the Prussian Partition of Poland. Until 1920, the city belonged to the Preußisch Stargard district in Regierungsbezirk Danzig in the Province of West Prussia in Germany . After World War I , it was reincorporated into Poland, which had just regained independence as

676-612: Was murdered in a massacre of around 230 Poles in Płutowo . The Germans also established and operated a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in the town. Despite such circumstances, Poles still organized an underground resistance movement , including the Home Army and Jaszczurka organizations. In 1945 the German occupation ended and the town was restored to Poland, however with

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