# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-donicke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:36.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-donicke"
name: "Walter Dönicke"
slug: "walter-donicke"
description: "Kurt Walter Dönicke was a German Nazi Party official and politician who became the Oberbürgermeister of Leipzig in Nazi Germany. Removed from office in 1938, he committed suicide in the last days of the Second World War when the city fell to the US Army."
tagline: "German politician (NSDAP) and mayor of Leipzig (1899-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volkssturm.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1899-07-27"
deathDate: "1945-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.19
  momentum:             3.505907875876496
  historical:           4.860768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "والتر دونيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_D%C3%B6nicke"
    title: "Walter Dönicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_D%C3%B6nicke"
    title: "Walter Dönicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_D%C3%B6nicke"
    title: "Walter Dönicke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1"
    title: "ヴァルター・デーニッケ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1617069"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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