# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-baier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:30:19.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-baier"
name: "Walter Baier"
slug: "walter-baier"
description: "Walter Baier is an Austrian politician for the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). He was his party's federal president from 1994 to 2006. He is the leader of the Party of the European Left since December 2022 and was the party's lead candidate for the European Commission in the 2024 election."
tagline: "Austrian politician and editor (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Augsburger_Parteitag_-_Walter_Baier_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.104970666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%93%A6%E5%B0%94%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E6%8B%9C%E5%B0%94"
    title: "瓦尔特·拜尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier_(Politiker)"
    title: "Walter Baier (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Baier"
    title: "Walter Baier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115063"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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