# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-ploetz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:03:09.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-ploetz"
name: "Alfred Ploetz"
slug: "alfred-ploetz"
description: "Alfred Ploetz was a German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), a form of eugenics, and for promoting the concept in Germany."
tagline: "German physician (1860–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred_Ploetz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1860-08-22"
deathDate: "1940-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.655512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألفريد بلوتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الفريد بلوتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алфред Пльотц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ploetz"
    title: "Alfred Ploetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66296"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump