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Jürgen Hahn

German handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ6321852 ↗
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Jürgen Hahn (born 23 September 1950) is a West German former handball player and coach. He competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In 1976 he was part of the West German team which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches and scored 14 goals.

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The public source identifies “Jürgen Hahn” as german handball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jürgen, Hahn 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—1950, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-09-23. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jürgen, Hahn and German providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6321852. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jürgen Hahn” 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.