# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-seidel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:32:09.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-seidel"
name: "Alex Seidel"
slug: "alex-seidel"
description: "Alex Seidel was a German weapons manufacturer and the co-founder of Heckler & Koch along with Theodor Koch and Edmund Heckler. Together the three men built the Heckler and Koch company out of the old name of Heckler & Co. on 28 December 1949. He designed the Mauser HSc pistol in 1934."
tagline: "German businessman (1909-1989)"
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: "1909-07-04"
deathDate: "1989-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.570017333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E5%88%A9%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E8%B3%BD%E5%BE%B7%E7%88%BE"
    title: "艾利克斯·賽德爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84"
    title: "ألكس زايدل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Seidel"
    title: "Alex Seidel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Seidel"
    title: "Alex Seidel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Seidel"
    title: "Alex Seidel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Seidel"
    title: "Alex Seidel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Seidel"
    title: "Alex Seidel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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