# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-walcher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:35:16.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-walcher"
name: "Jacob Walcher"
slug: "jacob-walcher"
description: "Jacob Walcher was a German communist politician and trade unionist who was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany in 1919. Following policy disagreements, he was expelled from the party and eventually joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, of which he served as de facto chairman-in-exile from 1933 until the formation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946."
tagline: "German politician (1887-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1912jacobwalcher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1887-05-07"
deathDate: "1970-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.149101333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Walcher"
    title: "Jacob Walcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Walcher"
    title: "Jacob Walcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Walcher"
    title: "Jacob Walcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Вальхер, Якоб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1246109"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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