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Benno Wandolleck

German sports shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ18619561 ↗
Source-derived summary

Benno Wandolleck (18 April 1864 – 1930) was a German sports shooter and zoologist. He competed in the 30m team military pistol event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Benno Wandolleck” as german sports shooter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1864, 1930, 1912—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1864-04-18. The account is most persuasive where Benno, Wandolleck and German can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as german sports shooter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18619561. VIAF identifies the subject as 57384578. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1864, 1930 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Benno Wandolleck” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.