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Ilja Seifert

German politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ1658609 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ilja Seifert (6 May 1951 – 10 September 2022) was a German politician. A member of the Party of Democratic Socialism and later The Left, he served in the Volkskammer from March to October 1990 and in the Bundestag from 1990 to 1994, 1998 to 2002, and again from 2005 to 2013.

Seifert died on 10 September 2022, at the age of 71.

Editorial summary

“Ilja Seifert” enters the record as german politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ilja, Seifert and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1951, 2022, 1990, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-05-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ilja, Seifert and German.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1658609. VIAF identifies the subject as 85111414. The Library of Congress control number is no2009066314. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 2022, 1990 and 1994.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ilja Seifert”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ilja Seifert primary sources, Ilja Seifert archive and Ilja research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Ilja Seifert” 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.