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Gerhard Müller (rower)

German rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ16228562 ↗
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Gerhard Müller is a retired East German rower who won the 1957 European Rowing Championships title in coxed four, together with Lothar Wundratsch, Egon Meyer, Heinz Dathe and Dietmar Domnick. The men rowed for ASK Vorwärts Berlin. It was the first time that East Germany had its own team at the European Championships.

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“Gerhard Müller (rower)” enters the record as german rower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gerhard, Müller and rower can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gerhard, Müller and rower.
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“Gerhard Müller (rower)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gerhard, Müller and rower provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16228562. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gerhard Müller (rower)” 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.