# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uwe-backes
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:44:45.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uwe-backes"
name: "Uwe Backes"
slug: "uwe-backes"
description: "Uwe Backes is a German political scientist and specialist in political extremism. He is a professor at the Technical University Dresden and together with Eckhard Jesse the editor of the Yearbook on Extremism and Democracy and Series on Extremism and Democracy. Backes is an adherent of the classical German theory of extremism (Extremismustheorie) that postulates that the extreme right and the extreme left have much in common in their opposition to liberty and democracy."
tagline: "German political scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.277898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Uwe Backes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "اوى باكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Backes"
    title: "Uwe Backes"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%DB%92_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "اووے بیکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Backes"
    title: "Uwe Backes"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Backes"
    title: "Uwe Backes"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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