# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-leisler-kiep
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:35.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walther-leisler-kiep"
name: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
slug: "walther-leisler-kiep"
description: "Walther Gottlieb Louis Leisler Kiep was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was a member of the Bundestag between 1965 and 1976 and again from 1980 to 1982. After switching to state-level politics, he served as minister of economy (1976–77) and minister of finance (1976–80) in Lower Saxony under Ernst Albrecht. In 1982, Kiep was the leading candidate for the CDU in two successive state elections in Hamburg, losing both to incumbent Klaus von Dohnányi. From 1971 until 1992, he was treasurer of his party at the federal level. In this position, Kiep installed a system of unreported income accounts, leading to the CDU donations scandal in 1999."
tagline: "German politician (1926–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F040153-0022%2C_Walter_Leisler_Kiep.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1926-01-05"
deathDate: "2016-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.33
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.433017333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1599920/"
    handle:    "nm1599920"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "والثير ليسلير كيپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE"
    title: "والتر لایسلر کیپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Walther Leisler Kiep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walther_Leisler_Kiep"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2547309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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