# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-wendler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:59.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-wendler"
name: "Richard Wendler"
slug: "richard-wendler"
description: "Richard Wendler was a high-ranking Nazi official during World War II. During the occupation of Poland, he was the Governor of new District Lublin in the General Government, in charge of Lublin concentration camp and the creation of the Częstochowa Ghetto, among others. Before his deployment to Poland, he was the mayor of the city Hof between 1933 and 1941 and became an SS-Gruppenführer in 1942 during the murderous Operation Reinhard. Wendler's sister was married to a brother of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler"
tagline: "German politician and SS general, Heinrich Himmler's brother-in-law (1898–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kundt%2C_Fischer%2C_Frank%2C_W%C3%A4chter%2C_Z%C3%B6rner%2C_Wendler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1898-01-22"
deathDate: "1972-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.23762
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Ріхард Вендлер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد ويندلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wendler"
    title: "Richard Wendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wendler"
    title: "Richard Wendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wendler"
    title: "Richard Wendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Вендлер, Рихард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wendler"
    title: "Richard Wendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rixard_Vendler"
    title: "Rixard Vendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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