# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-sommer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:20.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-sommer"
name: "Martin Sommer"
slug: "martin-sommer"
description: "Walter Gerhard Martin Sommer was a German SS Hauptscharführer who served as a guard at the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Sommer, known as the \"Hangman of Buchenwald\", was considered a depraved sadist who reportedly ordered two Austrian priests, Otto Neururer and Matthias Spanlang, to be crucified upside-down."
tagline: "German master sergeant (1915–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MartinSommer1935.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1915-02-08"
deathDate: "1988-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.74
  momentum:             0.6343792633015007
  historical:           11.30621066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "مارتن سومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer_(SS-Mitglied)"
    title: "Martin Sommer (SS-Mitglied)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4%ED%8B%B4_%EC%A1%B0%EB%A8%B8"
    title: "마르틴 조머"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer_(SS-lid)"
    title: "Martin Sommer (SS-lid)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Зоммер, Мартин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sommer"
    title: "Martin Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75575"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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