# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kurt-wusthoff
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:14:17.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kurt-wusthoff"
name: "Kurt Wüsthoff"
slug: "kurt-wusthoff"
description: "Leutnant Kurt Wüsthoff was a German fighter ace credited with 27 listed confirmed victories during World War I. Enlisting prewar at age 16 1/2, after learning to fly during the events leading to the war's start, he was posted as a flight instructor until adjudged old enough for combat. He then flew two-seater reconnaissance craft for a year and a half during 1916 and 1917 before training as a fighter pilot in June 1917. Assigned to Jagdstaffel 4, he shot down 24 enemy airplanes and three observation balloons between 15 June 1917 and 10 March 1918. Promoted to command of his squadron on 10 January 1918, he proved immature and plagued by combat stress reaction. Relieved of his post on 16 March 1918 by Manfred von Richthofen, he returned to combat duty with Jagdstaffel 15 in June, only to be shot down and captured on the 17th. He survived the war and a long convalescence, only to die after crashing while performing aerobatics on 18 July 1926. He died of his injuries five days later."
tagline: "German fighter ace (1897–1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeutnantKurtWuesthoff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1897-01-27"
deathDate: "1926-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.72
  momentum:             0.6470588235294119
  historical:           5.673182666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_W%C3%BCsthoff"
    title: "Kurt Wüsthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "كورت ويستهوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_W%C3%BCsthoff"
    title: "Kurt Wüsthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84"
    title: "Курт Вюстгофф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_W%C3%BCsthoff"
    title: "Kurt Wüsthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Wusthoff"
    title: "Kurt Wusthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96229"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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