# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-leitz-junior
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:17:20.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-leitz-junior"
name: "Ernst Leitz junior"
slug: "ernst-leitz-junior"
description: "Ernst Leitz II was a German business person and humanitarian. He was the second head of the optics company now known as Leica Camera and organized the Leica Freedom Train to allow people, most of whom were Jewish, to escape from Germany during Nazi times."
tagline: "German entrepreneur (1871–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leitz_ernst_ii.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1871-03-01"
deathDate: "1956-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.69
  momentum:             9.743589743589743
  historical:           6.372501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_II"
    title: "Ernst Leitz II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ارنست ليتز جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_II"
    title: "Ernst Leitz II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_II"
    title: "Ernst Leitz II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_II"
    title: "Ernst Leitz II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_II"
    title: "Ernst Leitz II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%98_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A5_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99"
    title: "ארנסט לייץ השני"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126665"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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