# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-zierke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:27:04.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-zierke"
name: "Ernst Zierke"
slug: "ernst-zierke"
description: "Ernst Zierke was a low-ranking member in the SS who took part in the Aktion T4 forced euthanasia program in Nazi Germany, and after the invasion of Poland worked at Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. Zierke helped to perpetrate the Holocaust. He was charged with being an accessory to the murder of 360,000 Jews at death camps, acquitted twice, in the Belzec and Sobibor trials of 1965 on grounds of acting under duress and set free."
tagline: "SS-Unterscharführer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Belzec_-_SS_staff_(1942).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1905-05-06"
deathDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             0.2935420743639922
  historical:           8.285602666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "ارنست زيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zierke"
    title: "Ernst Zierke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82"
    title: "Цирке, Эрнст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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