# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-heinrich-drechsler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:31:33.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-heinrich-drechsler"
name: "Otto-Heinrich Drechsler"
slug: "otto-heinrich-drechsler"
description: "Otto-Heinrich Drechsler was a German Nazi politician who served as the General Commissioner of Generalbezirk Lettland for the Nazi Germany's occupation regime Reichskommissariat Ostland during World War II. In this capacity, he played a role in setting up the Riga ghetto and was implicated in the extermination of Latvian Jews. He committed suicide on 5 May 1945, after being captured by British forces."
tagline: "Mayor of Lübeck (1895-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HL_Damals_%E2%80%93_Drechsler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1895-04-01"
deathDate: "1945-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4812319538017324
  historical:           10.50587066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Отто-Генріх Дрекслер"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto-Heinrich_Drechsler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump