# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-wilhelm-specht
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:33:06.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-wilhelm-specht"
name: "Karl-Wilhelm Specht"
slug: "karl-wilhelm-specht"
description: "Karl-Wilhelm Specht was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He served on the \"Court of Military Honour,\" a drumhead court-martial that expelled many of the officers involved in the 20 July Plot from the army before handing them over to the People's Court. Specht surrendered to the Soviet forces at the end of the war and died in Voikovo prison camp on 3 December 1953."
tagline: "German General and Knight's Cross recipients (1894–1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Unser_Heer%2C_Folge_3_(1942)%2C_Oberst_Karl_Wilhelm_Specht.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1894-05-22"
deathDate: "1953-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.03
  momentum:             3.448275862068966
  historical:           5.694746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Wilhelm_Specht"
    title: "Karl-Wilhelm Specht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%AA"
    title: "كارل فيلهلم سبيخت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Specht"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Specht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC_%D0%A8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%82"
    title: "Карл Вільгельм Шпехт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%9C_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%9B%D7%98"
    title: "קרל וילהלם שפכט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Wilhelm_Specht"
    title: "Karl-Wilhelm Specht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108577"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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