# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-sylvester-viereck
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:59:26.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-sylvester-viereck"
name: "George Sylvester Viereck"
slug: "george-sylvester-viereck"
description: "George Sylvester Viereck was a German-born American immigrant poet and journalist. After enjoying early success for his poetry, novels, and journalistic work, he achieved notoriety in the United States as a pro-German propagandist, and eventually as an agent operating on behalf of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he was convicted of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act and served nearly four years in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary."
tagline: "German-American writer, poet, propagandist (1884-1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Sylvester_Viereck_cph.3b27115.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1884-12-21"
deathDate: "1962-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             0.8269394714407503
  historical:           8.158106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вирек, Джордж Силвестер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چورچ سيلڤيستير ڤيريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sylvester_Viereck"
    title: "George Sylvester Viereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q570031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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