Geier
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Geier may refer to:

  • Geier (surname)
    Geier (surname)
    Geier is a German word for a vulture. Geier is also a notable surname and less frequently is seen as a place name.-Usages and Meanings of Geier:...

    , a surname of German origin (includes a list)
  • The Geier Indians
    Geier Indians
    The Geier Indians or Geies were a 17th century group of Native Americans in the United States. A small group known as the Geiers is supposed to have been encamped "under the name Papuliquier, which is a fusion of two group names, Pacpul and Geier" in the years 1675-1707 in Frio County, Texas. The...

    , 17th century native American group

Fiction

  • Der Geier (in English The Vulture (Kafka)
    The Vulture (Kafka)
    "The Vulture" is a short story by Franz Kafka, written sometime between 1917 and 1923.-Plot summary:A vulture hacks at the protagonist's feet until a man passing by asks him why he doesn't do anything about it...

    ), a short story by Franz Kafka
  • List of Bones characters#Marcus Geier, a character in the television show Bones

Naval

  • Geier (freighter)
    Geier (freighter)
    The Geier was a British cargo ship named , captured by the German commerce raider SMS Möwe in the North Atlantic in December 1916. First put into Imperial German Navy service as an auxiliary ship, the Geier operated in the South Atlantic until 14 February 1917 when it was scuttled near the island...

    , 1916–1917, a British freighter captured by German navy
  • SMS Geier
    SMS Geier
    SMS Geier was a German sloop which put into the then-neutral United States port at Honolulu, Hawaii, at the onset of World War I, but was seized by a crew from the USS St...

    , a German sloop
  • Geier (patrol boat)
    Geier (patrol boat)
    The Geier was a German patrol boat carrying a crew of 40, in the 7th Fast Patrol Boat Squadron and scheduled to be sold to the Tunisian Navy....

    , a German patrol boat
  • The FRG Geier, a ship decommissioned in 1976, sold to Greece, and renamed Tyfon
  • Geier, the nickname for an experimental German World War II torpedo
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