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4 unusual facts about Giese


Giese, Minnesota

Giese is an unincorporated community in Wagner Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States; located near Finlayson.

Lucas Watzenrode the Elder

Their daughter Katharina Feldstedt married Herman Giese, born 1523 in Danzig.

Tiedemann Giese

Tiedemann Giese (1 June 1480 – 23 October 1550), was a member of the patrician Giese family of Danzig (Gdańsk).

His father was Albrecht Giese and his brother, the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese.


Harry C. Giese

Giese was Foundation President and life member of numerous community service and sporting organisations, including the Royal Life Saving Society Australia (NT), Darwin Probus Club, Darwin Disaster Welfare Council after the 1974 destruction of Cyclone Tracy, and the Institute of Public Administration.

Harry Giese AM MBE (1913–2000) administered Australian federal government policy for the people of the Northern Territory under Prime Ministers including Robert Menzies and Harold Holt and Ministers including Paul Hasluck.

Kathleen Luong

She has appeared in Baywatch, JAG, and The Magnificent Seven (TV series 1998), and has premiered in lead roles such as Timothy Linh Bui's Green Dragon, Marie Giese's Hunger, Missing Brendan and In Search of a Midnight Kiss.

Max Giese

In Kiel he started his own company Max Giese Bau GmbH.

Ski boot

Boot designer Sven Coomer later improved the design with a corrugated tongue, and this technique was commercialized by Comfort Products, an Aspen, Colo. company owned by the ex-ski racer Erik Giese.

Sweeney's Flight

Sweeney's Flight (1992) is a portfolio of American photographer Rachel Giese's work, inspired by, and accompanied by extracts from, Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's Sweeney Astray.

Tiedemann Giese

Bischop Giese died in Heilsberg (Lidzbark) and was laid to rest next to Copernicus at the Frauenburg (Frombork) cathedral.


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