# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-german-baron-german
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:50:32.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-german-baron-german"
name: "Mike German, Baron German"
slug: "mike-german-baron-german"
description: "Michael James German, Baron German is a Welsh politician who was Deputy First Minister of Wales from 2000 to 2001 and 2002 to 2003 and Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2008 and overall Welsh Party leader between 2007 and 2008. The first-ever deputy first minister of Wales, he was also Minister for Economic Development from 2000 to 2001 and Minister for Rural Affairs and Wales Abroad from 2002 to 2003. He was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 where he was Assembly Member (AM) for South Wales East until 2010 and led his party group until 2008. In 2010, he was granted a life peerage and has since served in the House of Lords as a working peer for the Liberal Democrats. Ideologically, he is on the more liberal wing of his party."
tagline: "British politician (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_German_crop_2%2C_2022.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1945-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.82
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.816524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_German"
    title: "Mike German"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_German%2C_Baron_German"
    title: "Michael German, Baron German"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_German%2C_Baron_German"
    title: "Mike German, Baron German"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_German"
    title: "Mike German"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_German%2C_barone_German"
    title: "Mike German, barone German"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336526"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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