# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-von-mende
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:45:46.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-von-mende"
name: "Gerhard von Mende"
slug: "gerhard-von-mende"
description: "Gerhard von Mende was a Baltic German who was head of the Caucasus division at the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territory, or Ostministerium, in Nazi Germany. He was a scholar on Asiatic and Muslim minorities within the Soviet Union and was considered the pioneer of mobilising them as a fifth column against the Communists, while being one of their staunchest advocates within Nazi Germany and post-war West Germany. Following World War II, he established the Research Service Eastern Europe through financing by the West German foreign office, a company which replicated his activities at the Ostministerium, becoming an intelligence asset for the CIA and BND."
tagline: "German scholar (1904–1963)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-12-25"
deathDate: "1963-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.33
  momentum:             6.818181818181819
  historical:           6.149749333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_fon_Mende"
    title: "Gerhard fon Mende"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "جيرهارد فون ميندى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_von_Mende"
    title: "Gerhard von Mende"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_von_Mende"
    title: "Gerhard von Mende"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhards_fon_Mende"
    title: "Gerhards fon Mende"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_von_Mende"
    title: "Gerhard von Mende"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Менде, Герхард фон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572373"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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