# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-heckmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:11:53.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-heckmann"
name: "Wilhelm Heckmann"
slug: "wilhelm-heckmann"
description: "Wilhelm Heckmann was a German concert and easy listening musician. From 1937 to 1945, he was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps in Dachau and Mauthausen. Heckmann founded the first prisoner band in Mauthausen, and was also instrumental in the founding of the large prisoner orchestra there."
tagline: "German musician (1897–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilhelm_Heckmann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1897-06-26"
deathDate: "1995-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cbc24397-a60c-4fab-b394-2ffb8b5ff779"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "وليام هيكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heckmann"
    title: "Wilhelm Heckmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heckmann"
    title: "Wilhelm Heckmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heckmann"
    title: "Wilhelm Heckmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heckmann"
    title: "Wilhelm Heckmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "וילהלם הקמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heckmann"
    title: "Wilhelm Heckmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70664"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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