# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jurgen-forster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:55:09.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jurgen-forster"
name: "Jürgen Förster"
slug: "jurgen-forster"
description: "Jürgen Förster is a German historian who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is a professor of history at the University of Freiburg, the position he has held since 2005. Förster is a contributor to the seminal work Germany and the Second World War from the Military History Research Office (MGFA)."
tagline: "German historian of modern age"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             11.63265306122449
  historical:           5.875918666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_F%C3%B6rster"
    title: "Jürgen Förster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "يورغن فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_F%C3%B6rster_(Historiker)"
    title: "Jürgen Förster (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_F%C3%B6rster"
    title: "Jürgen Förster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "یورگن فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_F%C3%B6rster"
    title: "Jürgen Förster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1717180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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