# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-josef-paefgen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:54:32.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-josef-paefgen"
name: "Franz-Josef Paefgen"
slug: "franz-josef-paefgen"
description: "Franz-Josef Paefgen is a German engineer and manager. In 1976, Paefgen earned a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the RWTH Aachen University. He was most recently the CEO of Bentley Motors and Bugatti Automobiles SAS, from which he retired in 2011."
tagline: "German engineer and businessman"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1946-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.482002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Josef_Paefgen"
    title: "Franz-Josef Paefgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%AC%D9%86"
    title: "فرانز چوزيف بايفجن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Josef_Paefgen"
    title: "Franz-Josef Paefgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Josef_Paefgen"
    title: "Franz-Josef Paefgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%80%EC%B8%A0%EC%9A%94%EC%A0%9C%ED%94%84_%ED%8E%98%ED%94%84%EA%B2%90"
    title: "프란츠요제프 페프겐"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Josef_Paefgen"
    title: "Franz-Josef Paefgen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90609"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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