# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dieter-schenk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:51.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dieter-schenk"
name: "Dieter Schenk"
slug: "dieter-schenk"
description: "Dieter Schenk is a German author, former high police officer of the Bundeskriminalamt, and a member of Amnesty International. He is best known for his work and activism which led the German court in Lübeck to overturn a 1939 verdict from World War II, regarding the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig (Gdańsk), as well as his books on the widespread influence of ex-Nazis in post World War II Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)."
tagline: "German police officer, criminologist and author (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dieter_Schenk_02_byVetulani.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.84
  momentum:             2.91358024691358
  historical:           4.618828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديتر شينك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Schenk"
    title: "Dieter Schenk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Schenk"
    title: "Dieter Schenk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Schenk"
    title: "Dieter Schenk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dieter_Schenk"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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