# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norbert-vollertsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:01:20.210Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norbert-vollertsen"
name: "Norbert Vollertsen"
slug: "norbert-vollertsen"
description: "Norbert Vollertsen is a German doctor and human rights activist. He is best known for his travels to North Korea in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During these travels, he documented the ongoing famine by secretly photographing starving Korean children. In 2013, Vollertsen was condemned to three years in prison by a German court after being charged with child sexual abuse."
tagline: "German human rights activist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.47
  momentum:             5.026737967914439
  historical:           6.343449333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 232
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Vollertsen"
    title: "Norbert Vollertsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "نوربرت فولرتسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Vollertsen"
    title: "Norbert Vollertsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Vollertsen"
    title: "Norbert Vollertsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Vollertsen"
    title: "Norbert Vollertsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ノルベルト・フォラツェン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%85%B8%EB%A5%B4%EB%B2%A0%EB%A5%B4%ED%8A%B8_%ED%8F%B4%EB%9F%AC%EC%B2%B8"
    title: "노르베르트 폴러첸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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