# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-schnur
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:15:46.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-schnur"
name: "Wolfgang Schnur"
slug: "wolfgang-schnur"
description: "Wolfgang Schnur was an East German civil rights lawyer and a longtime informer of the East German Stasi. He was closely involved with the Association of Evangelical Churches  and worked on many of the cases in which the BEK's leading figures were involved. He also became well networked, on more than one level, with the country's political establishment."
tagline: "German politician and lawyer (1944-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-1216-021%2C_Leipzig%2C_Gr%C3%BCndungsparteitag_DA%2C_Wolfgang_Schnur.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-06-08"
deathDate: "2016-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.83
  momentum:             0.4829308909242298
  historical:           5.978657333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "وولف گینگ شنور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ولفجانج ستشنور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schnur"
    title: "Wolfgang Schnur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schnur"
    title: "Wolfgang Schnur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schnur"
    title: "Wolfgang Schnur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schnur"
    title: "Wolfgang Schnur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Шнур, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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