# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-ritter-von-epp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:57.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-ritter-von-epp"
name: "Franz Ritter von Epp"
slug: "franz-ritter-von-epp"
description: "Franz Ritter von Epp was a German general and politician who started his military career in the Bavarian Army. Successful wartime military service earned him a knighthood in 1916. After the end of World War I and the dissolution of the German Empire, Epp was a commanding officer in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. His unit, the Freikorps Epp, was responsible for numerous massacres during the crushing of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. He was a member of Bavarian People's Party, before joining the Nazi Party in 1928, when he was elected as a member of the German parliament or Reichstag, a position he held until the fall of Nazi Germany. He was the Reichskommissar, later Reichsstatthalter, for Bavaria, and a Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party. During the Nazi era, Epp, who had participated in the Herero and Nama genocide as a young man, shared responsibility for the liquidation of virtually all Bavarian Jews and Romas as the governor of Bavaria."
tagline: "German general and politician (1868–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Ritter_von_Epp_1937_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1868-10-16"
deathDate: "1947-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump