# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-spate
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:28:23.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-spate"
name: "Wolfgang Späte"
slug: "wolfgang-spate"
description: "Wolfgang Späte was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, with 99 victories claimed. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. For fighter pilots it was a quantifiable measure of skill and combat success. He used an early version of the speed to fly theory to win the 1938 Rhön gliding competition flying a DFS Reiher. Already a talented glider pilot before the war, he went on to become one of the Luftwaffe's foremost test pilots."
tagline: "German World War II fighter pilot (1911–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1911-09-08"
deathDate: "1997-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.758065333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вольфганг Шпете"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87"
    title: "فولفجانج شبيته"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87"
    title: "فولفجانج شبيته"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te"
    title: "Wolfgang Späte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te"
    title: "Wolfgang Späte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te"
    title: "Wolfgang Späte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te"
    title: "Wolfgang Späte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86"
    title: "ヴォルフガング・シュペーテ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te"
    title: "Wolfgang Späte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sp%C3%A4te"
    title: "Wolfgang Späte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3491638"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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