# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-xaver-dorsch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:32:32.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-xaver-dorsch"
name: "Franz Xaver Dorsch"
slug: "franz-xaver-dorsch"
description: "Franz Xaver Dorsch was a German civil engineer who became the chief engineer of the Organisation Todt (OT), a civil and military engineering group in Nazi Germany that was responsible for a huge range of engineering projects at home and in the territories occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. He played a leading role in many of the Third Reich's biggest engineering projects, including the construction of the Siegfried Line (Westwall), the Atlantic Wall and numerous other fortifications in Germany and occupied Europe. Following the war, he founded the Dorsch Consult consulting engineering company in Wiesbaden."
tagline: "German civil engineer (1899–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B22744%2C_Atlantikwall%2C_Albert_Speer%2C_Xaver_Dorsch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1899-12-24"
deathDate: "1986-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.0285442435775452
  historical:           9.837944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Франц Ксавер Дорш"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump