# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-ruhe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:06:52.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-ruhe"
name: "Volker Rühe"
slug: "volker-ruhe"
description: "Volker Rühe is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as German Defence minister from 1 April 1992, succeeding Gerhard Stoltenberg during the first government of a reunified Germany in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Kohl, to the end of the fifth Kohl Cabinet on 27 October 1998. During his time at the Defence Ministry Rühe played a central role in placing NATO enlargement on the German political agenda. He unsuccessfully ran for the office of minister-president of the German state Schleswig-Holstein in the year 2000, eventually losing against incumbent Heide Simonis."
tagline: "Former German politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volker_Ruehe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.68
  momentum:             23.30965909090909
  historical:           11.785616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Volker Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87"
    title: "فولكر روه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фолькер Руэ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Volker Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فولکر روهه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_R%C3%BChe"
    title: "Volker Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_R%C3%BChe"
    title: "Volker Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8"
    title: "フォルカー・リューエ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkerus_R%C3%BChe"
    title: "Volkerus Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_R%C3%BChe"
    title: "Volker Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_R%C3%BChe"
    title: "Volker Rühe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Volker Rühe"
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    title: "Рюэ, Фолькер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84388"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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