# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-gruninger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:26:06.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-gruninger"
name: "Paul Grüninger"
slug: "paul-gruninger"
description: "Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police commander in St. Gallen. He was recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial foundation in 1971. Following the Austrian Anschluss, Grüninger saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents to indicate that they had entered Switzerland at a time when legal entry of refugees was still possible. He was dismissed from the police force, convicted of official misconduct, and fined 300 Swiss francs. He received no pension and died in poverty in 1972."
tagline: "Swiss Righteous Among the Nations, police captain and soccer player (1891-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Gr%C3%BCninger_vermutlich_im_Jahr_1939.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1891-10-27"
deathDate: "1972-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.0657
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Paul Grüninger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump