# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-koch-q66940
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:37:30.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-koch-q66940"
name: "Karl Koch"
slug: "karl-koch-q66940"
description: "Karl Werner Lothar Koch was a German hacker in the 1980s, who called himself \"hagbard\", after Hagbard Celine. He was involved in a Cold War computer espionage incident."
tagline: "German hacker (1965–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Koch_1985.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1965-07-22"
deathDate: "1989"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.15
  momentum:             0.5957086391869001
  historical:           9.335108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12807604/"
    handle:    "nm12807604"
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(heker)"
    title: "Karl Koch (heker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AE"
    title: "كارل كوخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4_(%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "كارل كوش (جاسوس من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch"
    title: "Karl Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(Hacker)"
    title: "Karl Koch (Hacker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)"
    title: "Karl Koch (hacker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)"
    title: "Karl Koch (hacker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)"
    title: "Karl Koch (hacker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)"
    title: "Karl Koch (hacker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch"
    title: "Karl Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66940"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077838"
    title: "Karl Koch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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