# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-hecker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:01:02.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-hecker"
name: "Jan Hecker"
slug: "jan-hecker"
description: "Jan Hecker was a German lawyer and diplomat. He was an advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a judge at the Federal Administrative Court, as well as an adjunct professor at the European University Viadrina. He died shortly after taking office as German ambassador to the People's Republic of China."
tagline: "German judge, jurist and lawyer (1967-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ambassador_Jan_Hecker.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1967-02-15"
deathDate: "2021-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.13
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.822932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%BA%E5%B2%A9"
    title: "贺岩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "يان هيكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "يان هيكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hecker"
    title: "Jan Hecker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD_%CE%A7%CE%AD%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Γιάν Χέκερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hecker"
    title: "Jan Hecker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%BE%D9%8A%DA%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "يان ھيڪر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hecker"
    title: "Jan Hecker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1681820"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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