# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horst-herold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:31:23.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horst-herold"
name: "Horst Herold"
slug: "horst-herold"
description: "Horst Herold was a German police officer. He was the President of the Federal Criminal Police of West Germany from 1971 to 1981. Under his leadership, the method for the systematic manhunt of Red Army Faction terrorists, called Rasterfahndung (dragnet), was introduced. He authored several essays on policing. He died on 14 December 2018."
tagline: "German jurist (1923-2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1923-10-21"
deathDate: "2018-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.36
  momentum:             0.9719934102141681
  historical:           7.914618666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380199/"
    handle:    "nm0380199"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هورست هيرولد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Horst Herold"
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    title: "Horst Herold"
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    title: "Horst Herold"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Herold"
    title: "Horst Herold"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Herold"
    title: "Horst Herold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Herold"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump