# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-scherff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:22:50.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-scherff"
name: "Walter Scherff"
slug: "walter-scherff"
description: "Karl Walter Scherff was a German army officer and military historian with the rank of Generalmajor, who was appointed by Adolf Hitler to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in May 1942 to compile the history of the war, as the Führer's Commissioner for the Writing of Military History."
tagline: "German general (1898-1945)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-11-01"
deathDate: "1945-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.088338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%84%D1%84"
    title: "Вальтер Шерфф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81"
    title: "والتر شيرف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scherff"
    title: "Walter Scherff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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