# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-scholem
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:20:30.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-scholem"
name: "Werner Scholem"
slug: "werner-scholem"
description: "Werner Scholem was a German communist politician and journalist who served in the Landtag of Prussia from 1921 to 1925 and the Reichstag from 1924 to 1928. He was a leading member of the Communist Party of Germany from 1924 to 1925, part of a triumvirate alongside Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow. He was executed in Buchenwald in 1940. Scholem and his wife, Emmy, were portrayed in the 2014 documentary \"Between Utopia and Counter Revolution.\""
tagline: "German politician (1895-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Werner_Scholem_LCCN2014717543.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1895-12-29"
deathDate: "1940-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.574337333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Scholem"
    title: "Werner Scholem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "ويرنير ستشوليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Scholem"
    title: "Werner Scholem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Scholem"
    title: "Werner Scholem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Scholem"
    title: "Werner Scholem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "ורנר שלום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ヴェルナー・ショーレム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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