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Hans Schöchlin

Swiss rower (1893-1978)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ692378 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hans W. Schöchlin (6 March 1893 – 3 June 1978) was a Swiss rower. Together with his younger brother Karl he won eight medals in various events at the European championships of 1920 to 1931. The brothers also won the gold medal in the coxed pair event at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Later Hans took part in the 1936 Games, in the mixed literature event of the arts competition.

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“Hans Schöchlin” enters the record as swiss rower (1893-1978). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hans, Schöchlin and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1893, 1978, 1920, 1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hans, Schöchlin and Swiss.
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“Hans Schöchlin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hans, Schöchlin and Swiss 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 Q692378. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1978, 1920 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hans Schöchlin” 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.