# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-arthur-leuchter-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:10:57.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-arthur-leuchter-jr"
name: "Frederick Arthur Leuchter, Jr."
slug: "frederick-arthur-leuchter-jr"
description: "Fred Arthur Leuchter Jr. is an American manufacturer of execution equipment and Holocaust denier, best known as the author of the Leuchter report, a pseudoscientific document alleging there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Prior to the document's publication, he was contracted by authorities of several U.S. states to improve the designs of instruments for capital punishment. He was charged in Massachusetts with misrepresenting himself to penitentiaries as an engineer, despite having no relevant qualifications. He plea bargained with state prosecutors and received two years' probation. He has also been accused of running a \"death row shakedown\", where he threatened to testify for the defense in capital cases if he was not given contracts for his services by that state."
tagline: "American Holocaust denier"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1943-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.210810666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504875/"
    handle:    "nm0504875"
sources:
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    title: "Фред Лейхтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريدريك ارثر لوشتر الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_A._Leuchter"
    title: "Fred A. Leuchter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_A._Leuchter"
    title: "Fred A. Leuchter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "فرد لویچتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_A._Leuchter_jr."
    title: "Fred A. Leuchter jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_A._Leuchter"
    title: "Fred A. Leuchter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Лейхтер, Фред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Leuchter"
    title: "Fred Leuchter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q562193"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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