# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-bruch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:08.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-bruch"
name: "Walter Bruch"
slug: "walter-bruch"
description: "Walter Bruch was a German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television. He was the inventor of closed-circuit television. He invented the PAL colour television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s. In addition to his research activities, Bruch was an honorary lecturer at Technische Hochschule Hannover. He was awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1975."
tagline: "German electrical engineer (1908–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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birthDate: "1908-03-02"
deathDate: "1990-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           14.455476
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump