# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-buchner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:50:15.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-buchner"
name: "Franz Büchner"
slug: "franz-buchner"
description: "Franz Büchner PlM was one of the most successful German fighter aces of the First World War, shooting down 40 enemy aircraft. He began his military career as a 16-year-old infantryman. His doughty exploits earned him a battlefield commission just after his 18th birthday, in early 1916. After being wounded and invalided from the infantry, he joined the Imperial German Air Service. Once he progressed to become a fighter pilot flying a Fokker D.VII, he initially struggled to gain his first aerial victories. Something clicked after his fifth victory, and he began to regularly shoot down enemy airplanes, scoring 35 victories between 1 July and 22 October 1918. Most notably, he shot down four SPADs on 26 September. He survived the war, but died in action in 1920 while combating communist revolutionaries near Leipzig."
tagline: "German flying ace (1898–1920)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_B%C3%BCchner_(1898_%E2%80%931920).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1898-01-02"
deathDate: "1920-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.33
  momentum:             3.191489361702129
  historical:           10.28160666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%91%D1%8E%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Франц Бюхнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "فرانز بوشنر (مهندس فضاء جوى من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner_(Jagdflieger)"
    title: "Franz Büchner (Jagdflieger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8E%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86"
    title: "Бюхнер, Франц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B%C3%BCchner"
    title: "Franz Büchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72108"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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