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Sturm

Sturm (German for storm) may refer to:

Sturm (surname)

Sturm is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

  • Alexander McCormick Sturm (1923–1951), American artist and co-founder of Sturm, Ruger firearms
  • Christian Sturm (born 1978), German tenor
  • Christoph Christian Sturm (1740–1786), German preacher and author
  • Felix Sturm, German boxer, world champion
  • Florian Sturm, Austrian footballer
  • Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm (1841-1919), German mathematician
  • Helmut Sturm, artist and member of Situationist International
  • Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553), German statesman and Reformation leader in Strasbourg, a contemporary of Johannes Sturm, but not related to him
  • Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803–1855), French-Swiss mathematician, one of the eponyms of the Sturm-Liouville theory
  • (1559–1650), Belgian mathematician, physician, and poet

  • Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703), German philosopher
  • Johann Georg Sturm (1742–1793), German natural history illustrator
  • (1805-1862), German engraver and ornithologist

  • (1808-1865), German botanist, ornithologist, and engraver

  • Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), German Protestant pedagogue of the Renaissance in Strasbourg
  • (1570-1625), German physician and logician

  • Lacey Sturm, former vocalist for Flyleaf
  • Marco Sturm, German-born NHL player currently with the Florida Panthers
  • Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848–1922), Serbian World War I general of Sorbian origin
Sturm (novella)

Sturm is a 1923 World War I novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It has a frame story set in the days before the Somme Offensive on the Western Front, where a group of German officers meet to discuss the war and listen to the literary sketches read by one of their members, Lieutenant Sturm.

Usage examples of "sturm".

SS Sergeant Major Gunther Sturm strut before the ragged assembly, his face clean-shaven for once, his lank blond hair combed across his bullet-shaped head.

But tonight Sturm was snatching men from the ranks with hardly a glance.

Five storm troopers converged as Sergeant Sturm waded into the ranks to collar a reluctant prisoner.

Sergeant Sturm flung the diamonds across the snow like a man feeding chickens.

He turned and marched off toward the front gate, his knee boots gleaming under the lights, Sturm stared down at Ben Jansen in silent rage.

Sergeant Sturm was leading one team in a game of soccer in which a couple of large ammunition crates served as goals.

Ever since he got here last September, Schemer has been riding Sturm and his men about security.

Grinning as though he had never felt better, Schemer walked over to Sturm, who lay gasping on the ground, and offered him a hand.

Sergeant Sturm and the other SS menscherner was not scrupulously clean shaven.

Had Sergeant Sturm finally decided to follow him and see what he was up to in the forest at night?

Gunther Sturm strode with great satisfaction S through Totenhausen Camp.

Ten minutes later he ordered all search parties to concentrate in the area of the Kleist residence, then left for Totenhausen to summon Sergeant Sturm with his best dogs.

Marching stiffly up the alley, he saw Sturm pull down her underpants, brace his left hand in the small of her back and reach between her thighs with his right.

When Sturm doubled over in agony, he smashed his fist down on the back of his neck.

Sturm, something bad enough that Sturm is afraid to bring charges against him for consorting with you.