# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-weise
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:45:19.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-weise"
name: "Martin Weise"
slug: "martin-weise"
description: "Martin Weise was a German journalist, member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a resistance fighter against the Nazis during World War II. From 1929 to 1934, Weiss published the socialist Die Rote Fahne newspaper. He was arrested and sent to a concentration camp until 1939. When he was released, he decided to resist and made contact with Wilhelm Guddorf and the Hamburg based group around Bernhard Bästlein and Robert Abshagen He became associated with an anti-fascist resistance group that was run by Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack, that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr."
tagline: "German resistance fighter against the Nazis and journalist (1903-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Memorial_plate_martin_weise_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1903-05-12"
deathDate: "1943-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.004428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Weise_(Widerstandsk%C3%A4mpfer)"
    title: "Martin Weise (Widerstandskämpfer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Weise"
    title: "Martin Weise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Weise"
    title: "Martin Weise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Weise"
    title: "Martin Weise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_(%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Вайзе, Мартин (антифашист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110940"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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