# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-sorge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:27.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustav-sorge"
name: "Gustav Sorge"
slug: "gustav-sorge"
description: "Gustav Hermann Sorge, nicknamed \"Der eiserne Gustav\" for his brutality, was an SS senior NCO (Hauptscharführer). He was initially a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region of Germany. Later on, he was assigned to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp."
tagline: "German SS officer, concentration camp guard and convicted war criminal (1911-1978)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Gustav_Sorge.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1911-04-24"
deathDate: "1978-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.47
  momentum:             0.8955223880597013
  historical:           8.975777333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2_%D0%97%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5"
    title: "Густав Зорге"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavs_Zorge"
    title: "Gustavs Zorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%2C_%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2"
    title: "Зорге, Густав"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sorge"
    title: "Gustav Sorge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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