# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-fiedler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:19:46.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-fiedler"
name: "Richard Fiedler"
slug: "richard-fiedler"
description: "Richard Fiedler was a German scientist who invented the modern flamethrower, a weapon that projects a stream of nitrogen. He submitted evaluation models of his Flammenwerfer to the German Army in 1901. The most significant model submitted was a man-portable device, consisting of a vertical single cylinder 4 feet long, horizontally divided in two, with pressurized gas in the lower section and flammable oil in the upper section. On depressing a lever the propellant gas forced the flammable oil into and through a rubber tube and over a simple igniting wick device in a steel nozzle. The weapon projected a jet of fire and enormous clouds of smoke some 20 yards. It was a single-shot weapon - for burst firing, a new igniter section was attached each time it was used for battle or other uses of any sorts. It was first used on the western front both by the Central Powers and the Entente."
tagline: "German scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900"
deathDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.04
  momentum:             1.097560975609756
  historical:           7.479410666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler"
    title: "Richard Fiedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد فيدلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "ريتشارد فيدلر (مهندس من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler_(Ingenieur)"
    title: "Richard Fiedler (Ingenieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler"
    title: "Richard Fiedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler"
    title: "Richard Fiedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler"
    title: "Richard Fiedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler"
    title: "Richard Fiedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fiedler"
    title: "Richard Fiedler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1756198"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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