# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthias-warnig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:16.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthias-warnig"
name: "Matthias Warnig"
slug: "matthias-warnig"
description: "Artur Matthias Warnig is a former East German Stasi officer and a Russia-based businessman who has worked closely with Vladimir Putin. He joined the Stasi, the secret police of communist East Germany, in 1974. During the Cold War he engaged in financial crimes by attempting to infiltrate and spy against banks in the Federal Republic of Germany. After the Stasi was disbanded following the unification of Germany, he was left unemployed and moved to Russia, where he took part in business ventures in cooperation with Putin, whom he had already known as a Stasi officer."
tagline: "German businessman and former East German Stasi spy"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%A3%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_Nord_Stream_AG_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1955-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.999506666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Варниг, Маттиас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "ماثيو وارنيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig"
    title: "Matthias Warnig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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