# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-ruff
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:19:19.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-ruff"
name: "Franz Ruff"
slug: "franz-ruff"
description: "Franz Ruff was a minor architect during the National Socialist regime in Germany, the son of Ludwig Ruff and responsible for completing the Nuremberg Party Congress Hall after his father's death in 1934. Along with Albert Speer, Paul Ludwig Troost and his father Ludwig Ruff, Ruff is one of the best-known architects of the 'Third Reich', who were entrusted with typical representative buildings and in this respect are considered to have set the style for this period. In 1944, Ruff was on the Gottbegnadeten list of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda."
tagline: "German architect (1906–1979)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1906"
deathDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.91
  momentum:             6.75
  historical:           4.60792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "فرانز روف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ruff"
    title: "Franz Ruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ruff"
    title: "Franz Ruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%81"
    title: "فرانس رف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E6%9C%97%E8%8C%A8%C2%B7%E9%B2%81%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "弗朗茨·鲁夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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