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Bernhard Schulze

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ825913 ↗
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Bernhard "Berni" Schulze (born 20 May 1938) is a German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964.

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The public source identifies “Bernhard Schulze” as canoeist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bernhard, Schulze and canoeist.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1000, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-05-20. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bernhard, Schulze and canoeist providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bernhard Schulze” 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.