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Helmut Kasimier

German politician (1926-2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ1603745 ↗
Source-derived summary

Helmut Kasimier (17 October 1926 in Breslau – 16 April 2013 in Hannover) was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party. Kasimier was a Member of Parliament (the Landtag) of Lower Saxony from 1963 to 1986, during which he was the Chairman of the SDP faction in the parliament from 1967 to 1974 and Finance Minister of Lower Saxony from 1974 to 1976.

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The public source identifies “Helmut Kasimier” as german politician (1926-2013). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Helmut, Kasimier and German.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1926, 2013, 1963, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1926-10-17. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Helmut, Kasimier and German providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Helmut Kasimier”, the useful work is to connect “german politician (1926-2013)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1603745. VIAF identifies the subject as 300355756. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 2013, 1963 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Helmut Kasimier” 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.