# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-vogel
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:04.478Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-vogel"
name: "Wolfgang Vogel"
slug: "wolfgang-vogel"
description: "Wolfgang Vogel was a German lawyer active in East Germany at the time of the Cold War who had brokered some of the most famous swaps of spies or exchanges against ransom of political prisoners between the Soviet bloc and the West. A bridge between two worlds during three decades, he came to symbolize the ambiguity of his time and environment, and his career was cited as material worthy of espionage thriller novelists Len Deighton and John le Carré."
tagline: "German lawyer (1925-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Wolfgang_Vogel.jpg"
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: "1925-10-30"
deathDate: "2008-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.78
  momentum:             0.3250380904012188
  historical:           7.073188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Фогель, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84"
    title: "فولفغانغ فوغل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89)"
    title: "فولفجانج فوجل (محامى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Вольфганг Фогель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Vogel_(Rechtsanwalt)"
    title: "Wolfgang Vogel (Rechtsanwalt)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Vogel"
    title: "Wolfgang Vogel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Vogel"
    title: "Wolfgang Vogel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Vogel"
    title: "Wolfgang Vogel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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