# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theo-sommer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:32:55.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theo-sommer"
name: "Theo Sommer"
slug: "theo-sommer"
description: "Theo Sommer was a German newspaper editor and intellectual. He began working for Die Zeit in 1958, rising to an editor-in-chief and publisher. His editorials for Die Zeit shaped the paper's social-liberal attitude. He advocated the policy of détente with the Eastern bloc states (Entspannungspolitik). From 1992, Sommer was publisher of Die Zeit, together with Marion Dönhoff and Helmut Schmidt. He was considered one of Germany's authorities on international relations and strategic issues."
tagline: "German journalist (1930–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theo_Sommer_(1967).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1930-06-10"
deathDate: "2022-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.78
  momentum:             0.5604534005037783
  historical:           5.993705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4924926/"
    handle:    "nm4924926"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theo_Sommer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ثيو سومير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Sommer"
    title: "Theo Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Sommer"
    title: "Theo Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Sommer"
    title: "Theo Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Sommer"
    title: "Theo Sommer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4772894"
    title: "Theo Sommer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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