# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruno-tesch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:39.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruno-tesch"
name: "Bruno Tesch"
slug: "bruno-tesch"
description: "Bruno Emil Tesch was a German chemist, entrepreneur, and war criminal. Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt, he invented the insecticide Zyklon B. He was the owner of Tesch & Stabenow, a pest control company he co-founded in 1924 with Paul Stabenow in Hamburg, Germany. During the Holocaust, Tesch sold vast quantities of Zyklon B, utilising his pesticide as a way to commit genocide. Over 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis using Zyklon B. A former employee of Tesch later said he was motivated not by ideology, but financial gain."
tagline: "German chemist, arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed (1890-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tesch_Bruno.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1890-08-14"
deathDate: "1946-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.374348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Bruno Tesch"
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    title: "برونو تيستش"
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    title: "برونو تش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Tesch"
    title: "Bruno Tesch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Tesch"
    title: "Bruno Tesch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "برونو تش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Tesch"
    title: "Bruno Tesch"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95_%D7%98%D7%A9"
    title: "ברונו טש"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruno Tesch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Tesch"
    title: "Bruno Tesch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruno Tesch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Tesch"
    title: "Bruno Tesch"
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    title: "Bruno Tesch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump