# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-schmelcher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:01:23.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-schmelcher"
name: "Willy Schmelcher"
slug: "willy-schmelcher"
description: "Willy Schmelcher was a Nazi Party politician and police official who rose to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and was the chief of police in Saarbrücken and Metz. He was also a member of the Reichstag throughout most of Nazi Germany and served as an SS and Police Leader in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and the Reichsgau Wartheland during the Second World War. After the war, he was interned, underwent denazification and secured a civil service position in the Saarland."
tagline: "German politician (1894-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willy_Schmelcher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1894-10-25"
deathDate: "1974-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.410116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Віллі Шмельхер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلى شميلشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Schmelcher"
    title: "Willy Schmelcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Schmelcher"
    title: "Willy Schmelcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Schmelcher"
    title: "Willy Schmelcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Schmelcher"
    title: "Willy Schmelcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Шмельхер, Вилли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Schmelcher"
    title: "Willy Schmelcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111121"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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