# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erich-apel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:15.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erich-apel"
name: "Erich Apel"
slug: "erich-apel"
description: "Erich Apel worked during World War Two as a rocket engineer at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Nazi Germany. After his return from the Soviet Union, where he had forcibly worked for rocketry development under the Operation Osoaviakhim until 1952, he became an East German party official. During the later 1950s, he was increasingly involved in economic policy, serving from 1958 as head of the German Democratic Republic's Economics Commission in the Politburo. He was seen as a reformer. However, economic reform rapidly fell off the agenda after October 1964 when Nikita Khrushchev fell from power in Moscow."
tagline: "German politician and economist (1917-1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0612-0001-002%2C_Dr._Erich_Apel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1917-10-03"
deathDate: "1965-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.29
  momentum:             13.74045801526717
  historical:           9.647124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "埃里希·阿佩尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اريتش اپيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "اریک اپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Apel"
    title: "Erich Apel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85"
    title: "Апель, Эрих"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump