König, Friedrich

Japanese: ケーニヒ(英語表記)König, Friedrich
König, Friedrich
Born: April 17, 1774, Eisleben, Saxony
Died January 17, 1833. Obersel. German printing engineer. He studied printing techniques in Leipzig until the age of 20, after which he devoted himself to improving printing presses. He traveled to Russia in search of investors, and went to London in 1806, where he first obtained a patent for a lithographic printing press, and in 1811 developed a cylinder rotary printing press that could be linked to a steam engine. This had a printing capacity of 1,100 sheets per hour, and reduced newspaper printing costs by 25%. In 1817, he left the London Times Company and returned to Germany, where he began manufacturing printing presses, which later developed into the company König-Bauer.

Konig
Koenig, Marie-Pierre (-Joseph-François)

Born: October 10, 1898, Kahn
[Died] September 2, 1970. Neuillis-sur-Seine. French army officer. Fought in Norway and France in the early stages of World War II. After the German occupation of France, escaped to Britain in June 1940 and joined de Gaulle's Free French Forces. As a brigade commander, he halted the advance of General E. Rommel's Axis forces at Bir Hackheim in North Africa from May to June 1942, and in 1944 led an anti-German guerrilla force in occupied France. At the end of the war, he became commander of the French forces in Germany. In 1950, he retired from the military and ran for the National Assembly as a de Gaulle supporter. He served as Minister of Defense twice, in 1954 and 1955.

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Japanese:
[生]1774.4.17. ザクセン,アイスレーベン
[没]1833.1.17. オーベルゼル
ドイツの印刷技術者。 20歳までライプチヒで印刷技術を修得したのち,印刷機の改良に没頭。出資者を求めてロシアまで旅行し,1806年ロンドンに行き,まず平版印刷機の特許を取り,11年蒸気機関と連動できるシリンダ (円筒式) 輪転印刷機を開発。これは1時間に片面 1100枚の印刷能力があり,新聞印刷費を 25%節減できた。 17年ロンドン・タイムズ社を辞してドイツに帰り,印刷機製造を始めたが,これがのちにケーニヒ=バウアー社に発展した。

ケーニヒ
Koenig, Marie-Pierre (-Joseph-François)

[生]1898.10.10. カーン
[没]1970.9.2. ヌイリシュルセーヌ
フランスの陸軍軍人。第2次世界大戦初期にはノルウェーとフランスで戦い,ドイツ軍のフランス占領後,1940年6月イギリスに脱出,ドゴールの自由フランス軍に参加。 42年5~6月旅団長として北アフリカのビルハッケイムで E.ロンメル将軍の枢軸軍の進撃を食止め,44年占領下の本国で対ドイツのゲリラ軍を指揮した。終戦時にはドイツ駐留フランス軍司令官となった。 50年軍を退き,国民議会にドゴール派として出馬。 54,55年の2回,国防相をつとめた。

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