Zwilling
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People

  • David Zwilling
    David Zwilling
    David Zwilling is an Austrian former alpine skier and World champion. He won a gold medal in the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1974. He finished second in the overall 1973 Alpine Skiing World Cup....

     (born 1949), Austrian alpine skier and world champion
  • Edward Harrison Zwilling
    Dutch Zwilling
    Edward Harrison "Dutch" Zwilling , was a professional baseball player who played outfield in the major leagues from -...

     (1888–1978), professional baseball player
  • Ernst Zwilling (1904–1990), German travel writer
  • Gabriel Zwilling
    Gabriel Zwilling
    Gabriel Zwilling was a German Lutheran and Protestant Reformer born near Annaberg, Electorate of Saxony. He was educated in Wittenberg and Erfurt...

     (c. 1487–1558), Lutheran theologian and reformer
  • Leonard Zwilling, State University of New York professor, studying human sexuality
  • Martin Zwilling, Business writer and mentor to entrepreneurs and startups
  • Paul Zwilling (1547–1581), German theologian and writer in New Latin
    New Latin
    The term New Latin, or Neo-Latin, is used to describe the Latin language used in original works created between c. 1500 and c. 1900. Among other uses, Latin during this period was employed in scholarly and scientific publications...

    , the son of Gabriel Zwilling
  • Sara Zwilling (died 1975), film producer and first wife of film director Boris Sagal
    Boris Sagal
    Boris Sagal was a Ukrainian-born American television and film director.-Early life and career:Born in Yekaterinoslav, Soviet Union, Sagal emigrated to the United States where he attended the Yale School of Drama. Sagal's many TV credits include directing episodes of The Twilight Zone, "T.H.E...

    , and mother of Katey Sagal
    Katey Sagal
    Catherine Louise "Katey" Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She first achieved widespread fame as Peggy Bundy on the long-running Fox comedy series Married.....

    , Jean Sagal
    Jean Sagal
    Jean Sagal is an American television actress and director. In the 1980s, she co-starred with her twin-sister Liz Sagal in the 23-episode television series Double Trouble that ran from 1984-85. She has since appeared on such shows as Picket Fences, Knots Landing, Quantum Leap and 21 Jump Street...

     and Liz Sagal
    Liz Sagal
    Elizabeth "Liz" Sagal is an American television professional, active as an actress, screenwriter and film editor.In the 1980s, she co-starred with her twin-sister Jean Sagal in the 23-episode television series Double Trouble that ran from 1984–85, as well as the 1982 movie Grease 2, a loose sequel...

  • Dr. Stefan Zwilling, researcher into nucleic acids

Military equipment

  • 12.8 cm FlaK 40
    12.8 cm FlaK 40
    The 12.8 cm FlaK 40, was a German World War II anti-aircraft gun built as the successor to the 88 mm gun. Although it was not produced in great numbers, it was one of the most effective heavy AA guns of its era....

    , a German-made World War II anti-aircraft gun with a 'twin' variant
  • Heinkel He 111
    Heinkel He 111
    The Heinkel He 111 was a German aircraft designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter in the early 1930s in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Often described as a "Wolf in sheep's clothing", it masqueraded as a transport aircraft, but its purpose was to provide the Luftwaffe with a fast medium...

    , a German-made World War II airplane with a 'twin' variant, the He 111 Z (or Zwilling)
  • Bf 109Z "Zwilling", an experimental German aircraft from World War II
  • MG 81 machine gun
    MG 81 machine gun
    The MG 81 was a German belt fed 7.9 mm machine gun, used in flexible installations in World War II Luftwaffe aircraft, replacing the older drum magazine-fed MG 15....

    , a German-made World War II machinegun with a 'twin' variant
  • Z/FlAK 85
    Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon
    The Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon is a towed anti-aircraft gun made by Oerlikon Contraves . The system was originally designated as 2 ZLA/353 ML but this was later changed to GDF-001...

    , a modern Austrian anti-aircraft gun with twin barrels
  • Flakpanzer IV mit 3.7 cm FlaK Zwilling
    Ostwind
    The Flakpanzer IV "Ostwind" was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier self-propelled anti-aircraft gun Wirbelwind....

    , a German-made World War II mobile anti-aircraft gun with two barrels

Other

  • J. A. Henckels
    J. A. Henckels
    J.A. Henckels is a knife manufacturer based in Solingen, Germany. Henckels is one of the largest and oldest manufacturers of kitchen knives, scissors, cookware and flatware.-History:...

    , a knife company formally named Zwilling J.A. Henckels
  • Professors Zwillinge, a series of books from the 1920s by German writer Else Ury
    Else Ury
    Else Ury was a German writer and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series...

  • Zwilling, the second album by Eric Fish
    Eric Fish
    Eric Fish , singer of Subway to Sally and solo artist.-History:Eric's first musical merit was that of reaching the finale of a DDR singer/songwriter competition in 1988. The same year he founded Catriona, a folk band based in Königs Wusterhausen, together with Jan Klemm and Marek Kalbus...

  • Zwillinge (Locomotives)
    Zwillinge (Locomotives)
    Between 1898 and 1905 more than fifty pairs of Zwillinge twin tank steam locomotives with an 0-6-0T wheel arrangement were acquired by the Swakopmund-Windhuk Staatsbahn in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika...

    were a class of small narrow gauge paired locomotives built in Germany in the late 19th early 20th century.
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