# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henrich-focke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:28:28.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henrich-focke"
name: "Henrich Focke"
slug: "henrich-focke"
description: "Henrich Focke was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. He has been called \"father of the helicopter\"."
tagline: "German aviation pioneer (1890–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henrich_Focke_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1890-10-08"
deathDate: "1979-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.819301848049281
  historical:           19.54640666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump