# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-hermann-thiele
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:25.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-hermann-thiele"
name: "Heinz Hermann Thiele"
slug: "heinz-hermann-thiele"
description: "Heinz Hermann Thiele was a German businessman and the chairman of Knorr-Bremse AG, a German automobile brakes manufacturer, and chairman of Vossloh, a German transport technology manufacturer. At the time of his death, he had a net worth of $20.2 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in Germany; he was also the largest shareholder in the German carrier Lufthansa AG. He was a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bavarian Order of Merit."
tagline: "German businessman"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1941-04-02"
deathDate: "2021-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.431253333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Heinz Hermann Thiele"
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    title: "هاينز هرمان تيله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "هاينز هرمان ثييل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Hermann_Thiele"
    title: "Heinz Hermann Thiele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Hermann_Thiele"
    title: "Heinz Hermann Thiele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%87"
    title: "هاینز هرمان تیله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Hermann_Thiele"
    title: "Heinz Hermann Thiele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19519918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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