# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-bake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:37:11.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-bake"
name: "Franz Bäke"
slug: "franz-bake"
description: "Franz Bäke was a German officer and tank commander during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. In post-war popular culture, Bäke was memorialised in the historical fiction series Panzer Aces by German author Franz Kurowski."
tagline: "German dentist and general (1898-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_B%C3%A4ke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1898-02-28"
deathDate: "1978-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.859688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump