# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-zech
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:20:19.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-zech"
name: "Karl Zech"
slug: "karl-zech"
description: "Karl Zech was a German SS-Gruppenführer and Police President of Essen who served as the first SS and Police Leader of Krakau during the Second World War. Convicted of corruption and dismissed from the SS, he committed suicide in 1944."
tagline: "German politician (1892-1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Zech%2C_Otto_von_Wachter%2C_Rudolf_Klenert.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1892-02-06"
deathDate: "1944-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             0.2512562814070352
  historical:           5.481354666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zech"
    title: "Karl Zech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "كارل زيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zech"
    title: "Karl Zech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zech"
    title: "Karl Zech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zech"
    title: "Karl Zech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zech"
    title: "Karl Zech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1733513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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