Kress
Kress is the name
- of a company from Meckesheim that manufactures refrigerated vehicles, see Kress-Fahrzeugbau GmbH
- of a southern German company that manufactured power tools, see Kress power tools
- of the specialist media publisher kress-verlag gmbh (specialist journal kressreport , media service)
- a city in Texas, see Kress (Texas)
- the title character Leo Kress from the television series Der Alte
Kress is
- an outdated German word for the color orange (color)
Kress or Kreß is the family name of the following people:
A.
- Andreas Kreß (* 1986), German wheelchair basketball player
- Anton Kreß (1899–1957), German football player
- August Kreß (1862 / 1863–1930), German musician and choir director
B.
- Beatrix Kreß (* 1974), German cultural scientist
- Brigitta Kreß (* 1952), German social scientist
- Bruno Kress (1907–1997), German philologist, university professor and translator
C.
- Carl Kress (1907-1965), American jazz guitarist
- Carl Kress (film editor) (* 1937), American film editor
- Christian Kreß (around 1632–1714), civil servant from Electoral Saxony
- Christian Kreß (actor) (1971-2016), German actor
- Christoph Kreß von Kressenstein (1484–1535), a German mayor and politician
- Clara Kress (1899–1971), German craftsperson and artist
- Claus Kreß (* 1966), German law scholar and university professor
D.
- Dorothea Kreß (1924–2018), German athlete
E.
- Emil Kreß (1860–1922), German lawyer and judge
- Eric Kress (* 1962), Danish cameraman
- Ernst Kress (* around 1950), German diplomat
F.
- Friedrich Kress (also Friedrich Krebs ;? –1493), German organ builder
- Friedrich Kreß von Kressenstein (diplomat) (1776–1855), Austrian diplomat
- Friedrich Kreß von Kressenstein (General of the Infantry) (1855–1920), German General of the Infantry
- Friedrich Kreß von Kressenstein (General of the Artillery) (1870–1948), German General of the Artillery
- Fritz Kreß (carpenter) also Fritz Kress (1884 - 1962), German carpenter, entrepreneur and author
- Fritz Kreß (politician) (1896-1960), German politician (SPD)
- Fritz Kress (* 1956), German soccer player
G
- Georg Kreß (* 1965), German children's book author
- Georg Adam Kreß (1744–1788), German teacher and composer
- Georg Ludwig von Kreß ( Georg Ludwig Kreß von Kressenstein ; 1797–1877), German painter, engraver and electroplater
- Georg Philipp Kress (1719–1779), German composer and violinist
- Gerhard Kress (1894–1936), German-Estonian politician, member of the Riigikogu
- Günther Kress (* 1929), German media journalist
H
- Hanns-Wolfgang Kress (? –2006), German genealogist
- Hans Kress (? –1495), German businessman and councilor
- Hans Kress von Kressenstein (1902–1973), German physician and co-founder of the Free University of Berlin
- Harold F. Kress (1913-1999), American film editor
- Hartmut Kreß (* 1954), German Protestant theologian
- Heinrich Kreß (1902–1985), German politician (CDU)
- Heinz Kress (1913–1996), German agricultural scientist and university professor
- Helga Kress (* 1939), Icelandic philologist and university lecturer
- Hermann Kress (1894–1954), German sculptor, etcher and draftsman
- Hermann Kreß (1895–1943), German lieutenant general in World War II
I.
- Ignatz Karl Kress (1806–1886), German surgeon, botanist and zoologist in Ebrach (Steigerwald)
J
- Johann Albrecht Kreß (1644–1684), German composer and conductor
- Johann Jakob Kress (1685–1728), German composer, violinist and concert master
- Johann Paul Kress (1677–1741), German lawyer and university professor
- Josef von Kress (1817–1881), Bohemian-Austrian railway technician
K
- Karl Kress (architect) (1857–1951), Swiss architect
- Karl Kress (* 1945), German politician (CDU)
- Karl-Heinz Kress (also Karl-Heinz Kreß ; 1928–1979), German painter
M.
- Manfred Kreß (1937–2008), German soccer player
- Matthias Kress (* 1969), German actor
- Michael Kreß (1843–1929), German poet
- Michael Kress (* 1964), German conceptual artist
- Mike Kress (* 1968), American basketball coach
N
- Nancy Kress (* 1948), American writer
- Nathan Kress (* 1992), American actor and voice actor
O
- Otto Kreß von Kressenstein (1850–1929), German colonel general and politician
- Otto Erich Kress (1926–2015), German publicist, film director and producer ( Tellux-Film )
P
- Paul Kreß (1635–1694), German gambist
- Peter Kreß (1826–1887), German politician and mayor
R.
- Rainer Kreß (* 1941), German mathematician
- Rainer Kress (* 1971), German painter
- Regine Kress-Fricke (* 1943), German author
- Richard Kreß (1925–1996), German football player
- Rudolf Kress (1890–?), German philosopher and teacher
S.
- Samuel H. Kress (1863–1955), American entrepreneur, art collector and patron
T
- Tom Kreß (* 1967), German actor
V
- Volker Kreß (* 1939), German theologian
W.
- Walter John Kress (* 1951), American botanist
- Wiktor Melchiorowitsch Kress (* 1948), Russian politician
- Wilhelm Kress (1836–1913), Austrian aircraft designer
- Willibald Kreß (1906–1989), German football player
- Wolfgang Kress (* 1956/1957), German historian and journalist
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