# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-oetker
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:59:45.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-oetker"
name: "Richard Oetker"
slug: "richard-oetker"
description: "Richard Oetker is a German billionaire heir and businessman, who in 2010 became CEO of multinational food processing company Dr. Oetker. In 1976 he was kidnapped by Dieter Zlof, a Slovene-born mechanic, and only released after a substantial ransom was paid. As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$2.7 billion."
tagline: "German entrepreneur, victim of kidnapping"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1951-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.607066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2252796/"
    handle:    "nm2252796"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Oetker"
    title: "Richard Oetker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد اويتكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Oetker"
    title: "Richard Oetker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Oetker"
    title: "Richard Oetker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Oetker"
    title: "Richard Oetker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1669093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3432784"
    title: "Richard Oetker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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