# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elli-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:20:50.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elli-schmidt"
name: "Elli Schmidt"
slug: "elli-schmidt"
description: "Elli Paula Schmidt was a German communist political activist with links to Moscow, where as a young woman she spent most of the war years. She returned in 1945 to what later became the German Democratic Republic where she pursued a successful political career till her fall from grace: that came as part of a wider clear out of peoples critical of the national leadership in the aftermath of the 1953 uprising. She was formally rehabilitated on 29 July 1956, but never returned to mainstream politics."
tagline: "East German politician (1908-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fotothek_df_pk_0000173_049_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1908-08-09"
deathDate: "1980-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.39
  momentum:             0.810810810810811
  historical:           7.21152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%82%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Шмидт, Элли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "إلي شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "الى شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli_Schmidt"
    title: "Elli Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli_Schmidt"
    title: "Elli Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli_Schmidt"
    title: "Elli Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli_Schmidt"
    title: "Elli Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli_Schmidt"
    title: "Elli Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104088"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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