# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-formis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:26:38.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-formis"
name: "Rudolf Formis"
slug: "rudolf-formis"
description: "Karl Erich Rudolf Formis was a German engineer and radio engineer at the Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG) subsidiary of Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft. Formis was a pioneer of the German amateur radio movement. During the period of Nazi rule in Germany, he transmitted anti-Nazi radio broadcasts from Czechoslovakia for the Black Front organisation, using a self-built shortwave radio. Formis was murdered by the Sicherheitsdienst on the orders of Reinhard Heydrich."
tagline: "German engineer (1896–1935)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Rudolf_Formis.jpg"
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: "1894-12-25"
deathDate: "1935-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.55
  momentum:             0.06042296072507553
  historical:           6.145321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Rudolf Formis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "رودولف فورميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Formis"
    title: "Rudolf Formis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Formis"
    title: "Rudolf Formis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Formis"
    title: "Rudolf Formis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Formis"
    title: "Rudolf Formis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Formis"
    title: "Rudolf Formis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96112"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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