# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henning-von-holtzendorff
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:39:58.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henning-von-holtzendorff"
name: "Henning von Holtzendorff"
slug: "henning-von-holtzendorff"
description: "Henning Rudolf Adolf Karl von Holtzendorff was a German admiral during World War I, who became famous for his December 1916 memo about unrestricted submarine warfare against the United Kingdom. He was a recipient of Order of the Black Eagle and the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves and was one of just six Grand Admirals of the Imperial German Navy."
tagline: "German admiral (1853-1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henning_von_Holtzendorff_en_1917.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1853-01-09"
deathDate: "1919-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.4484304932735426
  historical:           13.79204933333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump