# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-kurten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:02:27.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-kurten"
name: "Peter Kürten"
slug: "peter-kurten"
description: "Peter Kürten was a German serial killer, known as The Vampire of Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf Monster, who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults between February and November 1929 in the city of Düsseldorf. In the years before these assaults and murders, Kürten had amassed a lengthy criminal record for offences including arson and attempted murder. He also confessed to the 1913 murder of a nine-year-old girl in Mülheim am Rhein and the attempted murder of a 17-year-old girl in Düsseldorf."
tagline: "German serial killer (1883-1931)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1883-05-26"
deathDate: "1931-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           22.524712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump