# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-knab
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:12:31.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-knab"
name: "Werner Knab"
slug: "werner-knab"
description: "Werner Knab was a German SS-Sturmbannführer (major). He served at the German legation in Norway from 1939, and then as head of Gestapo in Norway from 1940 to 1942, during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Among others, he led a crackdown on the University of Oslo following the milk strike, and also acted as prosecutor in the court-martial set up in the strike's wake."
tagline: "German diplomat and officer (1908-1945)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1908-12-18"
deathDate: "1945-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.71
  momentum:             0.2037351443123939
  historical:           6.376605333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%2C_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Кнаб, Вернер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "فيرنر كناب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Knab"
    title: "Werner Knab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Knab"
    title: "Werner Knab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Knab"
    title: "Werner Knab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Knab"
    title: "Werner Knab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Knab"
    title: "Werner Knab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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