# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-riedel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:04:42.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-riedel"
name: "Walter Riedel"
slug: "walter-riedel"
description: "Walter J H \"Papa\" Riedel was a German-British engineer and rocket scientist who was the head of the Design Office of the Army Research Centre Peenemünde and the chief designer of the A4 (V-2) ballistic rocket. The crater Riedel on the Moon was named for both him and the unrelated German rocket pioneer Klaus Riedel."
tagline: "German rocket scientist (1902-1968)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-12-05"
deathDate: "1968-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.411556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Вальтер Рідель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_H._J._Riedel"
    title: "Walter H. J. Riedel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Riedel"
    title: "Walter Riedel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Riedel"
    title: "Walter Riedel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Riedel"
    title: "Walter Riedel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Riedel"
    title: "Walter Riedel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Riedel"
    title: "Walter Riedel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Ридель, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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