Introduction. Phraseological units reflect national characteristics, mentality, lifestyle, customs and traditions. Phraseological units characterizing the internal and external qualities of a person are called phraseological units-anthroponominees. Their components have different morphological properties connected by various syntactic relations. The study aims at identifying and comparing general and specific features within the structural organization of phraseological units-anthroponominees in Russian and German. Materials and methods. In the course of study the authors made the comparative analysis of phraseological unit-anthroponominees in Russian and German represented in the National Russian Language Corpus, in the Corpora of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Institute for the German Language (IDS) Mannheim. Research results, discussion. A phraseological unit-anthroponominee is a type of syntactic construction, according to which a number of phraseological units are formed. The study describes six structural models that are semantically connected to the character of a person in Russian and German. They differ in the type of syntactic connection, the location of the main and dependent components. The attribute-prepositive type of syntactic structure with coordination is frequently encountered (180 phraseological unit-anthroponominees in Russian, 272 – in German); less often the attribute-postpositive type with adjunction (1 – in Russian, 11 – in German) is presented. Conclusion. Structural models characterize the mental and physical qualities of a person in both languages. In the Russian language, phraseological unit-anthroponominees of the first type are distinguished by a great structural diversity compared to German with a strict word order. Adjunction models are more widely represented in the German language, which could be explained by its lower inflection as compared to Russian.