# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edzard-schmidt-jortzig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:17.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edzard-schmidt-jortzig"
name: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
slug: "edzard-schmidt-jortzig"
description: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998."
tagline: "German politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           7.479302666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ادزارد شميت چورتزيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig"
    title: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig"
    title: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig"
    title: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardus_Schmidt-Jortzig"
    title: "Eduardus Schmidt-Jortzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig"
    title: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edzard_Schmidt-Jortzig"
    title: "Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73213"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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