# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erhard-eppler
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:34:49.336Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erhard-eppler"
name: "Erhard Eppler"
slug: "erhard-eppler"
description: "Erhard Eppler was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and founder of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). He studied English, German and history in Frankfurt, Bern and Tübingen, achieved a PhD and worked as a teacher. He met Gustav Heinemann in the late 1940s, who became a role model. Eppler was a member of the Bundestag from 1961 to 1976. He was appointed Minister for Economic Cooperation first in 1968 during the grand coalition of Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU) and Willy Brandt (SPD), continuing under Chancellor Brandt in 1969 and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) in 1974, when he stepped down."
tagline: "German politician (1926-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F039410-0008%2C_Hannover%2C_SPD-Bundesparteitag%2C_Eppler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1926-12-09"
deathDate: "2019-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.71052631578947
  historical:           10.15637866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2859135/"
    handle:    "nm2859135"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.erhard-eppler.de/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ارهارد اپلير"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Eppler"
    title: "Erhard Eppler"
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    title: "ارهارد اپلر"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Eppler"
    title: "Erhard Eppler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhardus_Eppler"
    title: "Erhardus Eppler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Eppler"
    title: "Erhard Eppler"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Eppler"
    title: "Erhard Eppler"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Eppler"
    title: "Erhard Eppler"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump