# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-schwanitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:44:56.436Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-schwanitz"
name: "Wolfgang Schwanitz"
slug: "wolfgang-schwanitz"
description: "Wolfgang Schwanitz was a German intelligence official, who was the last head of the Stasi, the East German secret police. It was officially renamed the \"Office for National Security\" on 17 November 1989. Unlike his predecessor, Erich Mielke, he did not hold the title \"Minister of State Security\", but held the title of \"Leader of the Office for National Security\". Following the German reunification, he was active as an author of works that sought to portray the Stasi in a positive light."
tagline: "German politician, Stasi Generalleutnant (1930–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1989-1119-324%2C_Wolfgang_Schwanitz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1930-06-26"
deathDate: "2022-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.98
  momentum:             0.1915403032721468
  historical:           11.691944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1913430/"
    handle:    "nm1913430"
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    title: "Wolfgang Schwanitz"
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    title: "Wolfgang Schwanitz"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schwanitz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wolfgang Schwanitz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Wolfgang Schwanitz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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