# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-bauer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:17:05.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-bauer"
name: "Leo Bauer"
slug: "leo-bauer"
description: "Leopold Bauer was a German political activist and journalist, originally from Galicia. For reasons of race and politics he spent the twelve Nazi years in exile. That eventful period included more than one year locked up by the authorities in Switzerland where grounds for his conviction included \"damaging [Swiss] neutrality\". After 1945 he remained politically engaged. In 1953 he was deported by a military court in East Berlin to the Soviet Union for execution. In the event his sentence was commuted to a 25-year stretch in a Siberian labor camp. Then in October 1955, he was released to West Germany in the context of a general agreement between the governments in Bonn and Moscow for the return of surviving German prisoners of war. Leo Bauer later became a specialist advisor to Chancellor Brandt on East-West German relations (\"Ostpolitik\")."
tagline: "German politician and journalist (1912-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Bauer_1947.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1912-12-18"
deathDate: "1972-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.676962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Bauer"
    title: "Leo Bauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ليو باور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ليو باور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8D%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Бауэр, Лео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Bauer"
    title: "Leo Bauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Bauer"
    title: "Leo Bauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1818476"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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