# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-foerster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:00:52.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-foerster"
name: "Wolfgang Foerster"
slug: "wolfgang-foerster"
description: "Wolfgang Foerster was a German officer and military historian. His biography of General Ludwig Beck provided important source material for William Shirer's seminal book, \"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich\"."
tagline: "German officer and historian (1875-1963)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1875-08-04"
deathDate: "1963-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336177333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "وولف گینگ فوئرسٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "فولفغانغ فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فولفجانج فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Foerster_(Milit%C3%A4rhistoriker)"
    title: "Wolfgang Foerster (Militärhistoriker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Foerster"
    title: "Wolfgang Foerster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Foerster"
    title: "Wolfgang Foerster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Foerster"
    title: "Wolfgang Foerster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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