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Ilse Keydel

fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3796514 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ilse Keydel (11 February 1921 in Hannover, Germany – 5 May 2003 in Hannover) was a German fencer who won three medals in the foil events at world championships. Her bronze medal in 1953 was the first West Germany medal in fencing at world championships.

Editorial summary

“Ilse Keydel” enters the record as fencer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ilse, Keydel and fencer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2003, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ilse, Keydel and fencer.
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“Ilse Keydel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ilse, Keydel and fencer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3796514. VIAF identifies the subject as 303526376. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2003 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ilse Keydel” 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.