# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erich-traub
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:07.593Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erich-traub"
name: "Erich Traub"
slug: "erich-traub"
description: "Erich Traub was a German veterinarian, scientist and virologist who specialized in foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest and Newcastle disease. Traub was a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), a Nazi motorist corps, from 1938 to 1942. He worked directly for Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as the lab chief of the Nazis' leading bio-weapons facility on Riems Island under the direction of Kurt Blome."
tagline: "German biologist (1906–1985)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-06-27"
deathDate: "1985-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.65
  momentum:             2.91746641074856
  historical:           7.939350666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "埃里希·特劳布"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "اريك تروب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Erich Traub"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub"
    title: "Erich Traub"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub"
    title: "Erich Traub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub"
    title: "Erich Traub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub"
    title: "Erich Traub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub"
    title: "Erich Traub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub"
    title: "Erich Traub"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump