# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katharina-kern
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:45:01.509Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katharina-kern"
name: "Katharina Kern"
slug: "katharina-kern"
description: "Katharina \"Käthe\" Kern became a German anti-government activist during the Hitler years. After 1945 she quickly emerged as a senior politician and party loyalist in the Soviet occupation zone. She served between 1946 and 1985 as a member of what became the powerful Party Central Committee. A long-standing leading figure in the Ministry for the Health Service), she also served, between 1949 and 1970, as head of the national \"Mother and Child department\"."
tagline: "German politician (1900-1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fotothek_df_pk_0000278_029.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1900-07-22"
deathDate: "1985-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.4
  momentum:             17.5
  historical:           4.80828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Kern"
    title: "Katharina Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Kern"
    title: "Katharina Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Kern"
    title: "Katharina Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Kern"
    title: "Katharina Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Керн, Катарина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1735925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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