# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-philipp-reemtsma
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:05:41.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-philipp-reemtsma"
name: "Jan Philipp Reemtsma"
slug: "jan-philipp-reemtsma"
description: "Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg. In 1996, Reemtsma was kidnapped by Thomas Drach and only released after a ransom of 30 million German Marks was paid."
tagline: "German literary scholar, sociologist and philanthropist (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2014-g%C3%B6ttingen-historikertag_(087).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: "1952-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.060850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2816455/"
    handle:    "nm2816455"
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    title: "چان فيليپ ريمتسما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Philipp Reemtsma"
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    title: "Jan Philipp Reemtsma"
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    title: "Jan Philipp Reemtsma"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump