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Fritz Albicker

Swiss footballer (1893-1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ61890182 ↗
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Fritz Albicker (II) (1893 - 15 October 1959) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel.

Albicker was born in 1893.

Between the years 1910 and 1917 Albicker played a total of 24 games, scoring one goal, for Basel. Eight of these games were in the Swiss Serie A and 16 were friendly games. He played mainly as midfielder.

Sources and References

Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018.

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The public source identifies “Fritz Albicker” as swiss footballer (1893-1959). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fritz, Albicker and Swiss.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1959, 1910, 1917—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fritz, Albicker and Swiss providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61890182. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1959, 1910 and 1917.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fritz Albicker” 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.