# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-speidel
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:50.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-speidel"
name: "Hans Speidel"
slug: "hans-speidel"
description: "Hans Speidel was a German general who successively served in the armies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany and West Germany. The first general officer of the Bundeswehr, he was a key player in West German rearmament during the Cold War as well as West Germany's integration into NATO and international negotiations on European and Western defence cooperation in the 1950s. He served as Commander of the Allied Land Forces Central Europe (COMLANDCENT) from 1957 to 1963 and then as President of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs from 1964."
tagline: "German general; chief of staff under Erwin Rommel (1897–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0024%2C_Hans_Speidel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1897-10-28"
deathDate: "1984-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump