# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-heinrich-emil-becker
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:14:54.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-heinrich-emil-becker"
name: "Karl Heinrich Emil Becker"
slug: "karl-heinrich-emil-becker"
description: "Karl Heinrich Emil Becker was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. He was the head of the Army Ordnance Office, Senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, first president of the Reich Research Council, the first general officer to be a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, as well as being a professor at both the University of Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin."
tagline: "German general (1879–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27401%2C_Karl_Becker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-12-14"
deathDate: "1940-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.94
  momentum:             0.6648199445983379
  historical:           10.52239466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كارل هينريتش إميل بيكر"
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    title: "Karl Becker"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Becker_(General)"
    title: "Karl Becker (General)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Emil_Becker"
    title: "Karl Heinrich Emil Becker"
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    title: "카를 하인리히 에밀 베커"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl Becker (General)"
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    title: "Karl Becker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump