# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:31:41.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-schmidt"
name: "Rudolf Schmidt"
slug: "rudolf-schmidt"
description: "Rudolf Friedrich Carl Schmidt was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 2nd Panzer Army on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He was the older brother of Hans-Thilo Schmidt, who sold secrets about the Enigma machine to the French."
tagline: "German general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2005-1017-520%2C_Rudolf_Schmidt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1886-05-12"
deathDate: "1957-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.989395394473042
  historical:           16.45004533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Rudolf Schmidt"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump