# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-franz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:08:01.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-franz"
name: "Wolfgang Franz"
slug: "wolfgang-franz"
description: "Wolfgang Franz is a German economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Franz also is the chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts since March 2009."
tagline: "German economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Franz%2C_Berliner_Forum%2C_2000.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-01-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.21091811414392
  historical:           5.472426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wolfgang Franz (Volkswirt)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فولفغانغ فرانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فولفجانج فرانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%81%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA)"
    title: "وولف گینگ فرانز (ماہر معاشیات)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Franz_(economist)"
    title: "Wolfgang Franz (economist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Franz_(%C3%A9conomiste)"
    title: "Wolfgang Franz (économiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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