# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-leitz-senior
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:12:04.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-leitz-senior"
name: "Ernst Leitz senior"
slug: "ernst-leitz-senior"
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 (1843–1920)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernst_Leitz_circa_1910.jpg?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: "1843-04-26"
deathDate: "1920-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.015804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_I"
    title: "Ernst Leitz I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_I"
    title: "Ernst Leitz I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3_%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%85"
    title: "ارنست لایتس یکم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_I"
    title: "Ernst Leitz I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Leitz_I"
    title: "Ernst Leitz I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q880927"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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