# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolf-merckle
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:03:29.639Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolf-merckle"
name: "Adolf Merckle"
slug: "adolf-merckle"
description: "Adolf Merckle was a German entrepreneur and billionaire. He died by suicide at age 74 due to losses during the 2008 financial crisis. He was at one point the fifth-richest person in Germany with a net worth of $9.2 billion."
tagline: "Businessman, billionaire (1934–2009)"
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: "1934-03-18"
deathDate: "2009-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.364844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "ادولف ميركل (رجال اعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%8F%8C%ED%94%84_%EB%A9%94%ED%81%B4%EB%A0%88"
    title: "아돌프 메클레"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Merckle"
    title: "Adolf Merckle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84"
    title: "Меркле, Адольф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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