# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-wilhelm-fricke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:50:47.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-wilhelm-fricke"
name: "Karl Wilhelm Fricke"
slug: "karl-wilhelm-fricke"
description: "Karl Wilhelm Fricke is a German political journalist and author. He has produced several of the standard works on resistance and state repression in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990). In 1955, he became one of several hundred kidnap victims of the East German Ministry for State Security, captured in West Berlin and taken to the east where for nearly five years he was held in state detention."
tagline: "German journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Wilhelm_Fricke_-_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1929-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.681822666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Fricke"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Fricke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كارل ويلهلم فريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كارل ويلهلم فريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC"
    title: "Фрике, Карл Вильгельм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Fricke"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Fricke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Fricke"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Fricke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1733409"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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