# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-franz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:30:24.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-franz"
name: "Hermann Franz"
slug: "hermann-franz"
description: "Hermann Franz was a high-ranking commander in the police of Nazi Germany. He was the commander of the Police Regiment South, which perpetrated mass murder in the Holocaust in the Army Group South Rear Area. In 1942 he became commander of the 18th Mountain Police Regiment. Subsequently, Franz served as commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Greece and then became Higher SS and Police Leader Greece in autumn 1944, then commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Norway."
tagline: "German SS general officer (1891-1969)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1891-08-16"
deathDate: "1969-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.889634666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Franz"
    title: "Hermann Franz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "هيرمان فرانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Franz_(SS-Mitglied)"
    title: "Hermann Franz (SS-Mitglied)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86"
    title: "Герман Франц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Франц, Герман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Franz"
    title: "Hermann Franz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1312131"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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