Biography of Herman Krieger

ID or Ego

Vital Statistics

Born Detroit, Michigan 1926
Father born in Austria, 1888
Mother born in Russia, 1889


Detroit, 1942
Orphaned 1980
Herzlia Cemetary
Herzliya, 1981


Married Atty de Vries
Marriage Certificate
San Francisco City Hall, 1966

Education


High School, Detroit
Highland Park High School Diploma
Highland Park High, 1943

US Army Air Corps
Air Force Honorable Discharge
Awaiting flight training, I attended a photo school, and became an instructor.

Wayne Univ., Detroit
Wayne Univ. Main
Wayne University, 1948-51 (I lived in Webster Hall part of the time.)

Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Univ. California  Diploma
BA Math, 1956

Ecole des Langues Orientales, Paris
Carte d'élève
Russian Language

United Bicycle Inst., Oregon
bicycle mechanic certificate
Bicycle Maintenance, 1988

Univ. of Oregon
Univ. Oregon  Diploma
BFA, Photography, 1994
Foreign Languages:
     Nederlands, Français, Deutsch, Русский

Programming Languages:
     Fortran,  C,  Z80 Assembly,  HTML


Politics


harry s truman
I am a born and bred liberal
Father: FDR Democrat;   Mother: Golda Meir Labor Zionist


Work Experience


Newspaper Boy
liberty magazine
Liberty Magazine, 1935
Like Warren Bufett, I started with selling the
Liberty Magazine, but we ended up differently.


Hutchins Intermediate yearbook photo
The Detroit News, 1938-40

September 1, 1939 headline

June 10, 1940 headline
Besides papers for my route, I sold extra editions on the street.



Chemist
auto paint chemist
W.P. Fuller Paints, So. San Francisco, 1952-3


Programmer

x0 olpc
From Abacus to One Laptop per Second Childhood

Via Real-Time Systems, Military Computers, and IBM Mainframes

Ibm 704 and verdan
North American Aviation / Autonetics, Los Angeles and Anaheim 1956-59

Kontron PSI 80 IBM Main Frame
Euratom, Petten, 1984                     Shell Oil, Rijswijk, 1985-86

GKS-GRAL
GTS-GRAL GmbH, Darmstadt, 1987-89



International Marketing

passport

Permis de Conduire Rijbewijs



Amsterdam, 1963           Sweden, 1966          Moscow, 1969           Greece, 1979   




Eastern and Western Europe


Photography


Excerpts from 1943 Highland Park High School Yearbook
I worked part-time at Fromm's 1942-3

Packard Motor Car Co.
I worked in the Photo Dept., Packard Motor Car Co., 1943-45
I was also a free-lance photographer for the Detroit Jewish News

Harpo Marx
"To Herman, who wasted a flash bulb on me", Harpo Marx, Detroit, 1948
I worked evenings for the photo concession at The Bowery, 1946-49

North Beach
Bimbo's 365 and The Italian Village Night Clubs, San Francisco
Evenings I printed the photos taken at these night clubs, 1951-52

leica m3
My first Leica, 1964


Royal Photographic Society
Big Box Camera Era, 1994

Springfield museum
Springfield Museum, 2007

photo gallery hanging
PhotoZone Gallery, 2011

Exhibition Review


Eugene Weekly, Nov. 2, 2006


Google photo essays
Photo Essays by Herman Krieger




My Old Hometown