Kaiser (disambiguation)

Kaiser is an imperial title meaning "emperor", which is mainly used in German language; in late antiquity, German "Kaiser" emerged from Latin "Caesar".

Kaiser may also refer to:

Imperial title

• all Holy Roman Emperors (800–1806), Austrian Emperors (1804–1918) and German Emperors (1871–1918), each nameable by their German title "Kaiser"
• "the Kaiser", in English usually limited to the three emperors of the Prussia-dominated German Empire (1871–1918): Wilhelm I, Frederick III and Wilhelm II

Persons

• Kaiser (surname), a mainly German family name (see there for a list of persons with that name.)
• "Kaiser" or "Kaiser Franz", both nickname of Franz Beckenbauer, former German football player, coach and manager
• "The Kaiser", nickname of Ralf Souquet, a German professional pool player

Places

Alps

• Kaisergebirge, mountain range, often named with the short form "Kaiser"
• Zahmer Kaiser, mountain of the Kaisergebirge
• Wilder Kaiser, mountain of the Kaisergebirge

United States

• Kaiser, Missouri
• Kaiser, Wisconsin, a ghost town

Companies

• related to Henry J. Kaiser:
  • Kaiser Aluminum, an aluminum company
  • Kaiser (automobile), an automobile trademark
  • Kaiser Broadcasting, an entity that owned and operated broadcast television stations in the United States, 1958–1977
  • Kaiser Center, a skyscraper building in Oakland, California
  • Kaiser-Fleetwings, an aircraft manufacturer formed by the purchase of Fleetwings.
  • The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, or "Kaiser Foundation"
  • Kaiser Permanente, a health maintenance organization (HMO) based in the U.S. state of California
  • Kaiser Shipyards, part of Kaiser Shipbuilding Company
  • Kaiser Steel, a former steelmaking company that was based in California.
• Kaiser Associates a management consultancy
• Kaiser brewery, a Brazilian brewery

Ships

• Henry J. Kaiser class of United States Navy fleet replenishment oilers
• USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO-187), an U.S. Navy fleet replenishment oiler in Military Sealift Command service since 1986
• SMS Kaiser (1911), German battleship launched in 1911
• SMS Kaiser (1875), German cruiser launched in 1875
• SMS Kaiser (1858), a screw ship of the line of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, see Battle of Lissa (1866)

Other uses

• Kaiser (horse), a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse
• Kaiser Chiefs are an indie rock band
• Kaiser roll, a type of bread roll
• Kaiser Burnout, a fire event in the American Civil War named after James Kaiser
• Kaiser (game), a card game
• Kaiser (video game), a video game
• Kaiser window, a window function used for digital signal processing
• Kaiser test, a chemical test for the presence of primary amines, using ninhydrin
• HTC Kaiser, an alternate name for the HTC TyTN II Pocket PC phone
• The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, a 1956-1957 dramatic anthology television series
• Kaisar-i-Hind Medal, a British medal
• Kaiser-i-Hind (disambiguation), other uses of Kaiser-i-Hind
• Kaiser's (supermarket), a German supermarket chain
• Digimon Kaiser a character from Digimon Adventure
• Kaiser Ghidorah, a 4-legged cousin species of Godzilla's arch nemesis King Ghidorah.

See also

• Kaizers Orchestra, a Norwegian rock band
• Kayser (disambiguation)
• Keiser (disambiguation)
• Keyser (disambiguation)
• Qaisar, given name in the Middle East, Arabic version of Caesar respectively Kaiser
• Caesar, the title from which Kaiser is a derivation of
• All pages beginning with "Kaiser"