# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-thonke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:56:17.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-thonke"
name: "Wolfgang Thonke"
slug: "wolfgang-thonke"
description: "Wolfgang Thonke was a journalist, graduated military scientist, major general, and was the last Deputy Commanding General (A3) of the National People's Army Air Force in the former German Democratic Republic. He was a military aviator/fighter pilot of “performance level I” with more than 1,500 flight hours."
tagline: "Major general, last “Deputy commanding general of the NPA Air Force F/Air Defense Force”, today journalist (1938–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GenMaj-DrW-Thonke_1990.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-12-28"
deathDate: "2019-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.49
  momentum:             8.969167050161069
  historical:           5.472498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Thonke"
    title: "Wolfgang Thonke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "ولفجانج ثونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Thonke"
    title: "Wolfgang Thonke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Thonke"
    title: "Wolfgang Thonke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Тонке, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Thonke"
    title: "Wolfgang Thonke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118261"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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