# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rittmeister
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:15:48.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rittmeister"
name: "John Rittmeister"
slug: "john-rittmeister"
description: "John Friedrich Karl Rittmeister, often also abbreviated John F. Rittmeister, was a German neurologist, psychoanalyst and resistance fighter against Nazism. Rittmeister was a humanist and socialist who based his opposition to the Nazi state on moral grounds. He was known as a communist member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr."
tagline: "German psychiatrist (1898–1943)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/John_Rittmeister.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-08-21"
deathDate: "1943-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.209252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ритмайстер, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rittmeister"
    title: "John Rittmeister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جون ريتميستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Йон Ритмайстер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rittmeister"
    title: "John Rittmeister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rittmeister"
    title: "John Rittmeister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rittmeister"
    title: "John Rittmeister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rittmeister"
    title: "John Rittmeister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78076"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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