# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-erich-slany
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:21.416Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-erich-slany"
name: "Hans Erich Slany"
slug: "hans-erich-slany"
description: "Hans Erich Slany was a German designer considered by many to have been the first industrial designer to design plastic housings for power tools. Slany is also thought of as one of the icons of design in Germany. He founded TEAMS Design GmbH, was a professor of Industrial Design (ID) for more than 20 years and helped found the Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer e. V. in 1959. He then helped the VDID with their entry into the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)."
tagline: "German industrial designer (1926-2013)"
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: "1926-10-26"
deathDate: "2013-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.87
  momentum:             0.3738317757009345
  historical:           5.270662666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Erich_Slany"
    title: "Hans Erich Slany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "هانز اريك سلانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Erich_Slany"
    title: "Hans Erich Slany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Erich_Slany"
    title: "Hans Erich Slany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Erich_Slany"
    title: "Hans Erich Slany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "ہانس ایرک سلانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101536"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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