# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horst-rittel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:39.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horst-rittel"
name: "Horst Rittel"
slug: "horst-rittel"
description: "Horst Wilhelm Johannes Rittel was a design theorist and university professor. He is best known for popularizing the concept of wicked problem, but his influence on design theory and practice was much wider."
tagline: "German design researcher (1930–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-07-14"
deathDate: "1990-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.89
  momentum:             0.02481389578163772
  historical:           5.681210666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Horst Rittel"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "هورست ريتيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittel"
    title: "Horst Rittel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C"
    title: "הורסט ריטל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittel"
    title: "Horst Rittel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "هورست ریتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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