# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lothar-h-wieler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:00:48.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lothar-h-wieler"
name: "Lothar H. Wieler"
slug: "lothar-h-wieler"
description: "Lothar Heinz Wieler is a German veterinarian and microbiologist who served as president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from 2015 to 2023. In this capacity, he advised the German Federal and State Governments on topics of public health, especially infection hazards, and on the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic."
tagline: "German veterinarian, microbiologist, and the current president of the Robert Koch Institute"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zitat_L._Wieler_-_SCIENCE_ON-Talk%2C_Antibiotika_-_Wie_stoppen_wir_resistente_Keime.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             1.279620853080569
  historical:           5.505726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11308450/"
    handle:    "nm11308450"
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    title: "Lothar H. Wieler"
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    title: "Lothar H. Wieler"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_H._Wieler"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3258400"
    title: "Lothar H. Wieler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump