Famous People with Name Wenz

Wenzel Lorenz Reiner            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Wenzel Lorenz Reiner: was a Baroque painter who lived and died in Prague, Bohemia.

Wenzel Anton Graf[1] Kaunitz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wenzel Anton Graf[1] Kaunitz: was an Austrian statesman.It was intended that Kaunitz should become a clergyman when he was a boy, but he soon decided otherwise and studied law instead. During his career, he was Austria's ambassador in Turin (1741), then minister in the Austrian Netherlands during the absence of its ruler Prince Charles of Lorraine, October 1744 to June 1746; he was virtually the head of government after the death of the governor, Archduchess Maria-Anna, sister of Maria Theresa in December 1744.[2] The following French advance forced his retreat with the government of the Austrian Netherlands, first to Antwerp, then to Aachen, where Kaunitz represented Austria at the Congress of Aachen at the close of the War of the Austrian Succession (1748) and was ambassador at Versailles 1750-53, where he cooperated in laying the groundwork for the future Bourbon-Habsburg alliance. He had long been a strong opponent of the Anglo-Austrian Alliance which had existed since 1731.

Wenzel Pichl            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Wenzel Pichl: was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer.He was appointed to the post of first violinist of the Týn Church in 1762 and studied counterpoint with the organist J. N. Seger. In 1765 he was engaged by the composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf as a violinist for the private orchestra of Bishop Adam Patachich at Nagyvarad (now Oradea, Romania). The orchestra was dissolved in 1769 and Pichl became the music director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague.

Wenzel Jaksch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wenzel Jaksch: was a Sudeten German Socialdemocrat politician and the President of the Federation of Expellees in 1964-66.In 1929 he was elected as a member of the Parliament of Czechoslovakia in Prague representing the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czec