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Hans-Edgar Endres

German bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ27635842 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hans-Edgar Endres (born 17 August 1894, date of death unknown) was a German bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1894, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-08-17. For this dossier, Hans-Edgar, Endres and German is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hans-Edgar Endres” 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.