# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-dickmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:24:27.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-dickmann"
name: "August Dickmann"
slug: "august-dickmann"
description: "August Dickmann was one of Jehovah's Witnesses and a Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be killed for rejecting military service during World War II. He was one of many German Jehovah's Witnesses executed because of his religious beliefs during the Nazi regime. Commanding the firing squad that murdered Dickmann was SS officer Rudolf Höss, who was later to become the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp."
tagline: "German conscientious objector"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/August_Dickmann_(1910%E2%80%931939).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1910-01-07"
deathDate: "1939-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.124698666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dickmann"
    title: "August Dickmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74444"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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