# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolf-jandorf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:26.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolf-jandorf"
name: "Adolf Jandorf"
slug: "adolf-jandorf"
description: "Abraham Adolf Jandorf was a Jewish German businessman, who owned and operated the department store chain A. Jandorf & Co. Through his use of the most modern sales techniques, he rose from humble beginnings to become one of Germany's major merchants. With the Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin in 1907, he founded what is today Germany's best-known department store."
tagline: "German Jewish entrepreneur, founder of KaDeWe (1870–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adolf_Jandorf_u_Familie_(BerlLeben_1908-04_RSiegert).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1870-02-07"
deathDate: "1932-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.695502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Jandorf"
    title: "Adolf Jandorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81"
    title: "ادولف جاندورف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Jandorf"
    title: "Adolf Jandorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufhaus_Jandorf"
    title: "Kaufhaus Jandorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Jandorf"
    title: "Adolf Jandorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A3_%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A3"
    title: "אדולף יאנדורף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump