# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-epkenhans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:59:20.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-epkenhans"
name: "Michael Epkenhans"
slug: "michael-epkenhans"
description: "Michael Epkenhans is a German military historian known for his works dealing with the German Imperial Navy. He was the director of the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh from 1996 to 2009. In February 2009 he became the director of research for the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt der Bundeswehr in Potsdam. Following a reorganisation in 2013, the organisation became the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr."
tagline: "German historian"
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: "1955-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             9.090909090909088
  historical:           5.273146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Epkenhans"
    title: "Michael Epkenhans"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "مايكل ابكينهانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Epkenhans"
    title: "Michael Epkenhans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Epkenhans"
    title: "Michael Epkenhans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Epkenhans"
    title: "Michael Epkenhans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Epkenhans"
    title: "Michael Epkenhans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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