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Helmut Hofmann

boxer (1925-2017)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ11167640 ↗
Source-derived summary

Helmut Hofmann (14 November 1925 – 21 August 2017) was a German boxer. He competed in the men's flyweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics, representing Saar.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Helmut Hofmann” as boxer (1925-2017). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1925, 2017, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-11-14. The account is most persuasive where Helmut, Hofmann and boxer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as boxer (1925-2017). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11167640. VIAF identifies the subject as 7587167807446418130007. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925, 2017 and 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Helmut Hofmann” 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.