# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-wieker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:25:42.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-wieker"
name: "Volker Wieker"
slug: "volker-wieker"
description: "Volker Wieker is the former Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, and a general of the German Army. Trained as an artillery officer, Wieker served in every major foreign Bundeswehr deployment since 1996, including Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan."
tagline: "German general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2015_Volker_Wieker_awarded_Legion_of_Merit_of_the_United_States_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1954-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.82
  momentum:             2.990506329113924
  historical:           9.659112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Volker Wieker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "فولكر ويكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Wieker"
    title: "Volker Wieker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Wieker"
    title: "Volker Wieker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Wieker"
    title: "Volker Wieker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%A8_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A8"
    title: "פולקר ויקר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Wieker"
    title: "Volker Wieker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Wieker"
    title: "Volker Wieker"
    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%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "フォルカー・ヴィーカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4%EC%BB%A4_%EB%B9%84%EC%BB%A4"
    title: "폴커 비커"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Wieker"
    title: "Volker Wieker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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