# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-wust
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:36:01.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walther-wust"
name: "Walther Wüst"
slug: "walther-wust"
description: "Walther Wüst was a German Indologist who served as Rector of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1941 to 1945. He was an Oberführer in the SS and served as the President of the Ahnenerbe during the Nazi era."
tagline: "Rector of the University of Munich and SS member (1901-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walther_W%C3%BCst.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1901-05-07"
deathDate: "1993-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.128190666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вальтер Вюст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والثر ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_W%C3%BCst"
    title: "Walther Wüst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_W%C3%BCst"
    title: "Walther Wüst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر ووست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_W%C3%BCst"
    title: "Walther Wüst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_W%C3%BCst"
    title: "Walther Wüst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Вюст, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_W%C3%BCst"
    title: "Walther Wüst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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