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Fritz Nottbrock

German hurdler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ41536148 ↗
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Fritz Nottbrock (30 July 1910 – 13 March 1997) was a German hurdler. He competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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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—1910, 1997, 1932, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-07-30. For this dossier, Fritz, Nottbrock and German 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 Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q41536148. VIAF identifies the subject as 316498379. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1997, 1932 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fritz Nottbrock” 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.