# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-joachim-lang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:39:36.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-joachim-lang"
name: "Hans-Joachim Lang"
slug: "hans-joachim-lang"
description: "Hans-Joachim Lang is a German journalist, historian, and adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies University of Tübingen. Dr. Lang researched and authored the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern, published in 2004, which identified all of the victims murdered in the gas chamber of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp for Nazi anatomist August Hirt as part of his plan to create a pseudo-scientific Jewish skeleton collection during World War II."
tagline: "German historian and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hans-Joachim_Lang_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_d%C3%A9cembre_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             13.17073170731707
  historical:           7.009216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm7316358"
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    title: "هانس خواكيم لانغ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump