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Dieter Grahn

East German rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ875353 ↗
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Dieter Grahn (born 20 March 1944) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Zobten, Silesia, Germany (today in Poland). In 1968 he was a crew member of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the coxless four event. Four years later he won his second gold medal with the East German boat in the coxless four event.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dieter Grahn” is east German rower. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dieter, Grahn and East, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1944, 1968, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-03-20. For this dossier, Dieter, Grahn and East is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q875353. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1968 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dieter Grahn” 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.