# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunter-schabowski
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:59:41.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunter-schabowski"
name: "Günter Schabowski"
slug: "gunter-schabowski"
description: "Günter Schabowski was a German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling party during most of the existence of East Germany. After climbing up the party ladder, he became the regime's unofficial spokesman. He gained worldwide fame in November 1989 when he improvised a slightly mistaken answer to a press conference question about the future of the Berlin Wall, that seemed to announce the Wall's immediate end and raised popular expectations much more rapidly than the government planned. Massive crowds gathered at the Wall the same night, which forced its opening after 28 years. Soon afterward, the entire inner German border was opened; not much later, East Germany ceased to exist."
tagline: "German politician (1929-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1982-0504-421%2C_G%C3%BCnter_Schabowski.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929-01-04"
deathDate: "2015-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           24.281372
  currentAttention:     1.65692007797271
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump