# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-markov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:41:24.388Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-markov"
name: "Walter Markov"
slug: "walter-markov"
description: "Walter Karl Hugo Markov was a German historian. Shortly after he received his doctorate, a promising academic career was interrupted in 1934 when he joined the Communist Party and briefly became a resistance activist. In 1935 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, but ten years later in April 1945, as the Hitler regime collapsed, he was one of a number of long-term inmates from the Siegburg jail who organised their own \"self-release\", with the help of two pistols that he had been able to purchase, already loaded, on the prison black market."
tagline: "German historian (1909-1993)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-10-05"
deathDate: "1993-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             17.5
  historical:           5.477646666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Markov"
    title: "Walter Markov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "والتر ماركوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "والتر ماركوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Markov"
    title: "Walter Markov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Markov"
    title: "Walter Markov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Марков, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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