# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-huppenkothen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:02:17.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-huppenkothen"
name: "Walter Huppenkothen"
slug: "walter-huppenkothen"
description: "Walter Huppenkothen was a German lawyer, Sicherheitsdienst (SD) leader, and Schutzstaffel (SS) prosecutor in the SS Court Main Office. He is best known for leading the Gestapo investigation that followed the September 1944 discovery of the Zossen documents, which implicated Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, General Hans Oster, Hans von Dohnanyi, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the broader conspiracy against Adolf Hitler, and for presiding as prosecutor over the SS drumhead court-martial at Flossenbürg concentration camp on 8 April 1945 that condemned them to death. After the war, he worked for the Counterintelligence Corps of the US Army until 1949 on account of his expertise on Communist networks, before being tried for his wartime conduct in proceedings that became a notable case study in the early Federal Republic's reluctance to hold the Nazi judicial apparatus criminally accountable."
tagline: "German lawyer and Nazi intelligence officer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1907-12-31"
deathDate: "1979-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.97
  momentum:             4.916573971078978
  historical:           5.563218666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - 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%95%E3%83%83%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヴァルター・フッペンコーテン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Huppenkothen"
    title: "Walter Huppenkothen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Huppenkothen"
    title: "Walter Huppenkothen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Huppenkothen"
    title: "Walter Huppenkothen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Huppenkothen"
    title: "Walter Huppenkothen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Хуппенкотен, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320421"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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