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Helma Notte

German athletics competitor (1911–1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ1603147 ↗
Source-derived summary

Helma Notte (22 September 1911 – 14 March 1997) was a German athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Helma Notte” enters the record as german athletics competitor (1911–1997). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Helma, Notte and German 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—1911, 1997, 1928, 1932—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-09-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Helma, Notte and German.
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Why this record matters

“Helma Notte” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Helma, Notte and German provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1603147. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911, 1997, 1928 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Helma Notte” 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.