# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-joachim-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:33.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-joachim-meyer"
name: "Hans Joachim Meyer"
slug: "hans-joachim-meyer"
description: "Hans Joachim Meyer was a German linguist and CDU politician. When East Germany's authorities interrupted his law studies in Potsdam after six terms, he turned to English and American studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin where he then lectured and researched from 1964, with a habilitation in 1981, and as professor of applied linguistics from 1985 to 1990."
tagline: "German politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hans_Joachim_Meyer_cautiously_sharpened.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-10-13"
deathDate: "2024-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.74
  momentum:             17.14501510574018
  historical:           5.481138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Meyer"
    title: "Hans-Joachim Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Joachim_Meyer"
    title: "Hans Joachim Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Joachim_Meyer"
    title: "Hans Joachim Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Meyer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Meyer"
    title: "Hans-Joachim Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81-%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Майер, Ханс-Йоахим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1312695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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